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You say this as if the press is using the term in a misleading or special way, but in business the term "market share" has always meant percentage of volume for
by runaway 14y ago
You say this as if the press is using the term in a misleading or special way, but in business the term "market share" has always meant percentage of volume for a given time period, not including product still being used. People might use a term like "usage share" for that, being something completely different.
- dannyr 14y agoSo what if Blackberry launches on Feb 1 where it sold more than the IPhone 5 that day? Would you say that the Blackberry has the biggest market share?
- runaway 14y agoNot generally, because few would define a market in terms of a single day since it's not very useful. Usually a period of one year is assumed but can commonly be a quarter or a month. But technically, if you defined it that way, sure it had the biggest market share for that day.
- clarky07 14y agoThat seems unlikely :-) But sure, for that day. Nobody measures market share for a day though, as it's not a useful metric.
- diminish 14y agowhat I find abyssmal is this story getting on the front page on HN and venturebeat, when it is already few weeks old.