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I wonder how accurate this is given that we don't know what effect the Verizon iPhone has had?
by rbarooah 16y ago
I wonder how accurate this is given that we don't know what effect the Verizon iPhone has had?
- rbarooah 16y agoWhy the downvotes? Is it unreasonable to question analysts reports now?
- GHFigs 16y agoIt's unreasonable to expect reasonable behavior in a HN thread about Android or iOS.
- czhiddy 16y agoI enjoy reading the occasional iOS/Android thread on HN - it's perversely interesting to watch otherwise intelligent people engage in name calling, personal attacks, and the sort of fanboy-type behavior you'd normally see on Engadget or Gizmodo. Human tribal instinct can be entertaining to watch :-)
- tvon 16y agoI haven't seen any numbers reported on the Verizon iPhone, which I think hints at the impact being minimal (if you sell a lot, you talk about it).
- rbarooah 16y agoThey have said it was the best selling product in their history. That implies that it was at least as good as the droid or the htc incredible. That kind of volume might well be worth a couple of percentage points.
- tvon 16y agoAh, a quick google turns up a lot of references to that, I had missed it. I took the lack of lines on launch day to mean it didn't break any records, but I guess that's not the case.
- nl 16y agoI'd guess this is reasonably accurate up to Jan 2011, given that most analyst companies agree within a few percentage on the market share of the various platforms. I think most people expect Verizon to give the iPhone a boost for this quarter, and then the next quarter it to drop back some while people wait for the iPhone 5. Android should get a boost from all the new dual-core handsets, so I think they would hope to hold market share. I don't know what RIM has to hope for. More enterprise sales I guess?