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Posted on 07/29/2011 5:51:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker
IDC and Strategy Analytics today officially confirmed what was unofficially revealed last week: Apple has ousted Nokia as the largest smartphone maker in the world. The company sold 20.3 million iPhones last quarter, up 142 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, and according to Strategy Analytics that gives it an 18.5 percent share of the worldwide smartphone market — greater than Nokia’s 15.2 percent share, which has fallen by more than half since last year.
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My iPhone 3 started to crap out after 3 years so I moved from ATT to Verizon and picked up an iPhone 4. I looked at Android but it just didn’t seem as good. The move was seamless and all of my apps and contacts moved with a simple iTunes sync.
Verizon doesn’t use a sim chip so if I damage my phone or have a repair issue, I can’t just stick the card in a Go Phone and keep going. Oh well! I can buy a Go Phone card and pay 10 cents a minute if I need repairs.
HTC has also climbed stratospherically into 12.1 million phones sold in Q2.
The next few quarters will see Apple, Samsung and HTC battling it out for the biggest smartphone vendor out there.
... and RIMM [Blackberry] ...
You might have noted that the HTC is a clone of the iPhone, which might explain some of their success.
Yeah, RIM’s a bit different, though - they have massive entrenchment in business and government markets in the US, and are gaining massively in the UK (if I recall correctly, RIM was up more than any other maker in the UK market).
They’ll be a perennial 4-5th place player, but because of that government and big-business tie-in they’ll probably not lose much market share at all.
Perhaps. But they just laid off 10% of their employees! Their PlayBook was a flop.
LOL! F.U. NOKIA!
There are no winners or losers in these discussions, but facts are facts and iOS is clearly the leader in the handheld business, now and for the foreseeable future.
Apple does everything wrong, and still has become the bigger that the government. Ok that part is a silly quote from Drudge, but they have amassed a very large chunk of cash.
I really don’t care for the company, but I like their product. if there was something better, for me personally, I would abandon them in a heart beat.
Except the facts say otherwise - Android has a bigger chunk of the handheld business, and that margin is increasing.
I was just wondering which HTC phone you thought was a clone of the iPhone...
You might have noted that the HTC is a clone of the iPhone, which might explain some of their success.
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and are currently losing the patent battle against Apple. HTC may face an import ban or have to buy a license from Apple to continue importing its “clones” into the USA. Apple has the legal clout and money to shut them down world wide.
It is all about patent pofolios - which is why Google just bought 1030 patents from IBM... Android is at risk, and finished, if Oracle wins its suit against Google.
I see this as further vindication of Apple’s system strategy of hardware and software built together and specifically built to complement each other. I expect them to take over all market segments in the future. Perhaps they will then lend money to the US government. Nah! They are too smart for that.
That is like saying Ford is losing to all the other car companies because they all use gasoline, Ford is in real trouble. But like Apple they are actually selling cars, and making money.
Just because a phone comes with android, doesn’t mean that they are all the same, various companies taylor android to their needs. I think I read somewhere that today’s Droid can’t be assured it will even run the next version. In fact only about 10 % of the current phones running android are running the latest version, and many are not even capable of running the latest version. Besides as we have all been told, so many times before, once MS enters the market they are all doomed.
PS I was referring to the patent case that apparently Apple won against Samsung. Easy to make a phone when you have the other guys blueprints. Even easier to make them look very similar. I am pretty sure Apple has selected another fabricator.
And Dan Frommer's cherry picked data in that article included all the Chinese quasi-Android phones that don't run the Android apps, Android feature phones that don't run the Android apps, and while he did include the iPod touches, he deliberately excluded the 15 million iPads that had been sold at the time of his snap shot of the market, because "they weren't smartphones(!)", to get his breathless FUD headline that was supposed to be about iOS, not smartphones. So why did he include iPod touches? His "facts" were roundly criticized!
Cool, so it wasn’t HTC - it was Samsung. Fair enough.
So it runs Android, but because it doesn’t run the Google apps (there aren’t any “Android” apps) - it’s not an Android device? That doesn’t makes sense. Android is an OS - it has features that enabled and disabled as needed.
I guess only Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate count as Windows 7 OS deployments, too, huh?
A device that uses a stripped down Android ROM and uses NONE of the Android functionality merely to avoid licensing something else that costs money to use can hardly be called an Android device. The hardware on these devices is not even capable of being reprogramed. I might be inclined to grant you these dumb devices...
But the distortion of the "facts" that were used to make the story were necessary to get what the author wanted. He had to include devices that no one else recognizes as Android devices, marginal Android devices, and omit iOS devices that would have invalidated his claims. That is the point.
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