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The smartphone market has grown threefold in the span of three years. However, as noted previously, the share of units running a licensed OS has not grown dramatically. The following chart shows the vendors’ shares with…
The smartphone market grew to about 100 million units last quarter. That’s nearly double what it was a year earlier and triple what it was three years earlier, the year the iPhone made its debut. Few markets grow this…
In a recent post I pointed out that Apple’s R&D was about 2.2% of sales in the last quarter. Bernstein took a look at the R&D for Nokia and presented a chart showing the difference between the mobile industry players in…
People are lining up to call the market for mobile phones. Analysts and amateurs alike are connecting points on charts and predicting with confidence the future of mobile platforms. Consensus is forming that there is no…
Prices provide accurate, independent signals about where, when, and how to create and deploy value-creating innovations. The mechanism of free markets signals what should be rewarded and what shouldn’t. When comparing…
When I started Asymco.com I did not have a plan. I did not have a policy or vision statement. I wrote what I found interesting. I knew nothing of blogging or of web publishing as a business. Over the following nine…
Today’s charts show the amount of profit captured by the top eight public mobile phone companies in two different ways. The first, as a bar chart: The second shows the way they captured it by taking into consideration…
In a recent tally of mobile OS market share estimates from Canalys, the market was organized by OS vendors. The number of devices sold by operating system vendor includes as many OS’s as each vendor may supply. For…
The mobile phone market is growing rapidly. It grew 18% in the last quarter. The smartphone market grew even faster, about 75%. To grow share in this market means growing even faster than the market. What we can see from…
I’m registered as a member of the Press and will be attending the MWC 2011 in Barcelona February 14 through 15th. Please email me if you would like to schedule a meeting.