Still, in China, OmniVision has increasing competition from MediaTek in Taiwan, which has a 70% market share in China.
As in autos and most other industries, the companies who succeed in taking a large share of this market in China will likely be the global leaders of tomorrow.
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Kantar, a London based research firm, estimates that iOS has a 19% market share in urban China with Android having a 72% share.
Also Kantar estimates that in November 2012 Apple had a 19% market share in Urban China.
The firm commands a 30 percent market share in China's nascent TD-SCDMA market, and hey, you can only be a massively successful manufacturer in your domestic market before trying your hand elsewhere, right?
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Lenovo also claims to have a larger smartphone market share in China than ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co.
"Now they have a very large market share in China and have begun to export, " says the Brookings Institution's Lardy.
Just one year ago, Symbian had a 23% market share in China.
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Chinese sales accounted for about 14% of Burberry's total revenue, and the firm is planning to increase investment to capture a greater share of the market in China.
Overall, we think that the company is rightly focusing on protecting its turf, and prepping for what could be a long war for market share in China.
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As a result, Google has been losing market share in China, according to research firm Analysys International, which estimates the company had a 17% share of search revenue in the country in the first quarter, down from 36% in the fourth quarter of 2009.
It sold 20, 000 vehicles last year, good for a mere half-point of market share in China.
Pfizer Nutrition boasts a healthy 7.4% market share in China and generates 85% of its sales in emerging markets more broadly.
Meanwhile, Android held a market share of more than 80% in China at the end of 2012, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International.
While Coach reported double-digit growth in comparable store sales during fiscal 2010, increasing its market share to 5%, it is still not a widely recognized brand in China (with only 8% brand awareness).
According to a survey enacted by the China Internet Network Information Center, Baidu upped its market share in Beijing by 10.8 percentage points to 52%.
Already, Android smartphone market share in China has exploded from 3% to 35% in a single year.
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Although Amazon has run an e-commerce operation in China for years, it has failed to build up a significant market share as local competitors such as Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. and Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co. have pressed to attract new customers.
Market share in China, however, is increasing and the iPhone is also bucking a trend.
In comparison to this, its competitors, China Unicom has a 20% market share while China Telecom has the remaining 11%.
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During the second quarter, Lenovo grew its number-one position in China, the world's largest PC market, to a leading market share of 34 percent, up 2.4 points year-over-year.
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According to IDC, more than 210 million smartphones were sold in China last year giving the country a share of almost 30% of the world market and leaving the U.S. far behind.
With an opening economy, China presents a lucrative growth opportunity that can help Nike gain share in the sports products market.
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With Google fading from the search picture in China, it leaves further room for Baidu to establish a strangle-hold on market share.
In August, it said, citing a "WTO staff report, " that in the U.S. clothing market, China's share could shoot up to 50% from 16% in 2002.
Countries like India, Bangladesh and Indonesia, are taking a growing share of the export market for textiles, footwear and many hard goods, but China is still the leader in each of those categories.
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Share of market is down to 33 percent in a market growing 40 percent (but not forever.) I assume China Mobile is waiting for a low priced iPhone before putting Apple on its networks, maybe later this year.
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