SAN FRANCISCO — In the five months since Apple’s iPhone debuted on Verizon’s network, it has already become the carrier’s top-selling handset, AllThingsDigital reported Wednesday.
BTIG Research, which surveyed hundreds of Verizon and AT&T stores, said the trendy phone was No. 1 for both companies’ stories.
Of the Verizon stores surveyed, 51 percent said the iPhone was their top-seller and an additional 38 percent said it was tied for first with a rival Android device, typically the Samsung Droid Charge or the HTC Thunderbolt.
At AT&T stores, the iPhone was even more dominant — 65 percent of them named it as their top-selling phone. Another 31 percent said it was an Android device.
The iPhone debuted in 2007 and the first Android phone shipped in 2008. Five years later the two are slaughtering incumbents like Research in Motion, whose BlackBerry was rarely mentioned by respondents, according to BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk.