From a Gartner report, via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/13/iphone-android-smartphone-sales http://www.guardian.co.uk/techno

From a Gartner report, via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/13/iphone-android-smartphone-sales http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/13/iphone... In Q4 2008 Apple sold 4.1m iPhones (10.7% of the smartphone market), and Google is estimated to have sold 0.64m, or about 1.7% of the market. Gartner's estimate for Google might be a bit low -- other sources claim over 1M G1 preorders -- but the conclusion is clear: Apple still claims only a fraction of the smartphone market, and Android claims a fraction of that. So it's natural that an article like this one would focus on the question of "why aren't you developing for Symbian (47% marketshare), RIM (19.5%), or Windows Mobile (12.4%)?" rather than "why aren't you developing for Android?" (which has a 2 to 4% marketshare, 20 to 40% of Apple's market.) Symbian, RIM, and Windows Mobile are the elephants in this room.