Blah blah Apple whines about a bunch of software patents again. Go cry in a corner, Jobs. Either find a strategy that counters the rise of Android, or just suck it up and be a man about it. Oh, HTC is the target this time around. Again. Whatever.
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http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201007-201105
Ah, so it leaves it at right around 92%.
I may be missing something, but iOS is above Android in every market except Asia by quite a bit according to the data I see presented to me. Which graphs are you looking at? I assumed "MobileOS".... "MobileBrowser" is slightly in Android's favour, but really - what are these stats trying to prove?
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201007-201105-bar
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-na-monthly-201007-201105-bar
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-eu-monthly-201007-201105-bar
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nice bargraph - take a look at the lines. we are not talking about current market share, we are talking about trends. And looking at the trends, the future does not look very bright for iOS. In a few countries, iOS grows as fast as Android. In most markets, iOS grows slower. And again, in some markets, Android wiped the floor (or is about to) with iOS. The reason this is cause for alarm for Apple is that this is the juicy bit of the high-end market, precisely the one they are interested in.
Years ago everyone predicted that Android will flood the market with cheap Chinese handsets. However, it appears now that high-end Android handsets (some more expensive than Apple's offerings) are chewing at their marketshare. I'm pulling this out of my ass, but I would bet that 95% of Android growth is due to units sold in Apple's price-range (about $500 non-subsidized). Apple wouldn't mind a 80% Android marketshare if it was on the low-end. They are not interested in the low-end. Unfortunately for them, Android's eating Apple's high-end lunch. Hence the litigation.
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Which means NOTHING given it doesn't take into account the ability and willingness to spend money on applications/games - there is study after study showing that Android users have the lowest rate when it comes to willingness to purchase games/applications. Sorry, a platform longevity cannot just run on scented clouds of loveliness but whether it attracts applications to enhance the platform from merely a phone into a hand held device that has phone capabilities along side a whole host of others.
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Do you:
- work with consumer mobile technologies?
- are a consultant in consumer mobile space?
- own a consumer oriented mobile tech company?
If neither, than I suggest you read a bit of what VentureBeat has to say and I am seeing first hand - selling apps is a dead end business already. Thanks to Apple for driving the mobile app price down into the gutter.
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This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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I don't know - oh wait, let's check.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201007-201105
Ah, so it leaves it at right around 92%.
Edited 2011-07-12 07:39 UTC