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Several readers pointed out that in my discussion on the market share of modular vs. inter-dependent market shares for smartphones, Nokia was incorrectly classified as having an inter-dependent software architecture…
Belfiore wasn’t shy about criticizing Google’s Android OS. Even though Google currently dominates the mobile OS market, its strategy of licensing the Android OS to manufacturers is similar to Microsoft’s previous…
Peter Chou, chief executive of HTC, had previously said he saw “little value” in HTC running its own application store. But he has also said that it was no longer enough for HTC to simply customise the standard Android…
In March this year Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, was speaking about the iPad. For a while many movies were more like filmed plays, until directors really learned to take advantage of the…
As London seems to have a particularly high concentration of readers, I thought I’d mention that I’ll be in London for the Apps World Exhibition 30th November and 1st December 2010. I’ll be attending as an official…
Today’s chart: the percent of smartphones as part of the total phones sold for three vendors vendors that have traditionally sold a large portion of voice-oriented phones. As these vendors switch to a higher mix of…
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Given the large number of articles written in the last week on market data, I built a navigation table and posted it in a page that is easy to access: QUARTERLY MARKET DATA You can find it under the ADDs tab at the top…
Following-up on the profitability discussion for the top eight vendors, I built a chart to show estimated profit capture from smartphones, further dividing the vendors into inter-dependent (own OS) and modular (licensed…
If we look at the growth of smartphones independently from all phones, the category looks impressive: Smartphones are now almost 24% of all phones, up from 10% three years ago. What’s also impressive is all participants…