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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…
ZDNet reports Sony Ericsson are abandoning Symbian for Android, and Samsung headed down the Android and Bada road a while back. There are precious few device manufacturers remaining as foundation members, e.g. ZTE, Sharp…
Following up on survey data showing that up to 25 percent of Americans have moved to smartphones, here is another survey (Comscore) which shows that US smartphone users are at about 23 percent. Comscore also surveyed…
Market share is an existential threat to Symbian, it imperils the very existence of the platform. And the main reason Symbian is losing share is the user experience which isn’t competitive with Apple or Android. Based on…
In June 2008, Nokia made its first big move to turn around the platform, and announced that it was acquiring Symbian, with the intent of turning the OS into an open source project. Two years later, the move to open…
The number of Android devices is rising steadily; it’s already up to 135. Android devotees should rightly rejoice. However, Android is not the first mobile platform with an open licensing strategy. A quick visit to…
MM Research does not count Symbian as a smartphone platform. This makes them inconsistent with any other analyst for counting smartphones. So shouldn’t Symbian be included? In a comment to iPhone has 72% of Japanese…
Following up on my last post on how misleading US-only share comparisons can be, I decided to draw charts to visualize the comparison. As Android and iPhone compete in various ways, it’s hard to see which is the…
Smartphone impressions triple in a year « Asymco Following up on the previous Admob numbers, it seems that Symbian impressions grew by 22% vs. overall growth of 43%. In absolute terms, total impressions a year ago for…
When thinking about the number of devices shipping out of Apple, and the relative value of those units compared to the competition you have to always think of the platform. The market leader Nokia claimed to have sold…