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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…
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…
The following chart shows the units, sales and profit shares for the top eight phone vendors. The fourth quarter did not see change in the ranking of the top eight vendors except for Sony Ericsson dropping in sales rank…
The smartphone market grew 73% in Q4. Here are the growth rates for vendors which regularly report smartphone sales: Samsung is not consistent in reporting smartphones and we don’t have year-ago data but the following…
Biggest share winner: Other. The trend toward ZTE, Huawei and others taking volume share from the traditional incumbents continues. Smartphones continue to capture value share. Dedicated smartphone vendors HTC, RIM and…