Filed under: iPhoneSoftbank Corp., Japan's sole iPhone carrier, has announced that the iPhone accounted for 72% of smartphones shipped in the country during the fiscal year that ended March 31. The fact that the iPhone has penetrated 72% of the market in Japan is even more impressive given that Softbank Corp. is just the country's third-largest wireless, behind HTC Corp. and Toshiba Corp.
Seventy-two percent of the market equates to 1.69 million iPhones shipped in Japan in the last fiscal year. That's 5.6% of the 30.1 million units Apple sold worldwide in the twelve months ending in March, according to
