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Is Nokia getting cold feet from all this excitement about Android and other open source mobile phone platforms? RIM and Apple are much, much stronger than Nokia
by pmjordan 18y ago
Is Nokia getting cold feet from all this excitement about Android and other open source mobile phone platforms? RIM and Apple are much, much stronger than Nokia in the smartphone market, which, as far as I know, is pretty much the only part of the mobile phone market that's expanding in the developed world.
This move kind of puts into perspective their recent comments about how the mobile phone industry works differently from the open source world. Doesn't look like they have much confidence that that will be true for much longer.
- jonknee 18y agoApple isn't even in the smartphone market yet. You can't install apps.
- danw 18y ago"RIM and Apple are much, much stronger than Nokia in the smartphone market" That's a bit silly. As of Q4 2007 Nokia has 52.9% of market share for smartphones, part of the 65% for Symbian. RIM has 11.4% and Apple has 6.5% (impressive for only a year after launch). See http://www.canalys.com/pr/2008/r2008021.htm http://www.canalys.com/pr/2008/r2008021.htm
- DanielH 18y agoThey have a 6,5% share in Q4 and not overall, basically all those numbers out there only mention quarters and not overall market shares and that's very misleading. I have seen this on Techcrunch and many other blogs, where they put out 20% market share for the iPhone but if you consider there to be some 300 Mio. smartphones out there you get the real numbers ;).
- danw 18y agoWell spotted, I hadn't realised these were for Q4 sales, rather than market share in Q4. The 7% for the iPhone makes much more sense in this context.
- Tichy 18y agoCould you clarify please?
- DanielH 18y agoApple sold 6 Mio. iPhones till June and the whole smartphone market is about 300 mio. phones, that's 2%. The percentages mentioned on Techcrunch and all the other blogs mention selling figures per quarter. e.g. 35,522,360 smartphones sold in Q4 and 2,320,840 iPhones that means only 6,5% in this quarter and not in the whole market. I think it was 26% in Q1 2008 and 19% in Q2 2008 but as you see their market share is still only approximately 2% of all smartphones.