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OT : Does anyone know specific marketshare numbers about the iPhone vs WinMobile and Symbian? I am having a hard time tracking them down. Jobs claimed iPhone ou
by vizard 18y ago
OT : Does anyone know specific marketshare numbers about the iPhone vs WinMobile and Symbian? I am having a hard time tracking them down. Jobs claimed iPhone outselling all Windows Mobile combined.
- jcl 18y agoIf Wikipedia is to be believed, iPhone is currently fourth place in market share, behind all the OSes you mentioned plus BlackBerry's. But Jobs could well be correct with respect to growth rates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Operating_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Operating_systems
- vizard 18y agoMy bad .. should have looked up wikipedia first.
- DenisM 18y agoMicrosoft is selling 20 million devices/year with about 100% YOY growth if memory serves. Apple is at 6 million/year, no YOY numbers yet. Symbian is selling about 140 million devices/year. The numbers are not to be directly compared if you care about "smart" part of the "smartphone" - most Symbian users are not using any smart features, whereas many of Microsoft users do and so does practically every single Apple user.
- vizard 18y agoAah thanks. The claims and graphs by various vendors can be very difficult to make sense of sometimes.
- jodrellblank 18y agoWindows Mobile and Symbian cover a lot of devices and many years of brand building and development - Apple has one phone, 12 months of sales. For them to get it so right that it competes even slightly impresses me.