Still, I am looking forward to Symbian^4. Having a sane subset is probably sufficient to a lot of people who don’t bother to chase through an app store for the latest and greatest anyway After all, you can do a lot of sweet things on a Symbian smartphone still, most of the key apps run, like Spotify and various social networking applications. After all, we are more tech nerds than business people here, how well Apple or Nokia does money-wise is not that important, what is more interesting is what the sales number says about the future of the tech.įrom the fact that Nokia keeps steaming ahead it mostly tells me that a lot of people can settle for slightly less smart phones if they impress through other factors (battery life, price, simplicity, small form-factor). Well, yeah, but defining smartphones too narrowly makes the survey less interesting anyway.
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Android and Windows Mobile vendors made little or no gains over the last year, a situation which will surely change with the recent announcement of promising new offerings both in the OS and hardware arena. Much as in the US market RIM has slipped a few percentage points – to 19.4% – as it continues to struggle to answer the challenge of Apple and other vendors.Īpple was the stand out performer over the last year world wide with its market share growing from 10.9% to 16.1%, closing in on RIM’s second position. The global market situation is tangibly different with Nokia maintaing its dominance of nearly 40% of the market, more than the next two vendors – RIM and Apple – combined. Google rounds out the smart phone peloton in the fourth position with 9% of the US market.
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Despite ‘missing a whole cycle’ Microsoft remains third with 19%. RIM continues the maintain its lead with 35% share of the market with Apple a close second at 28%. The latest US market share report by Nielsen shows both the iPhone OS and Android growing at the expense of Windows Mobile and the Blackberry OS.
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A number of recent reports provide a new picture of the current smart phone market landscape and the trends likely to impact that landscape over the coming year.