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Android Continues Its March To The Number One Spot In US And Global Mobile OS Sales
As reported by Endgadget:
At a 30,000-foot level, the global
mobile phone sales numbers for the third quarter of 2010 just released
by Gartner match up with what IDC posted
a few days ago, but you might say the devil’s in the details. These
guys have all of the top five players — Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple, and
RIM — at noticeably lower total market shares than IDC did, suggesting
that second-tier players like Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and HTC (if you
can really call them “second-tier”) are grabbing more hearts and minds.
And hey, considering Motorola’s prominent role at Verizon and HTC’s
ever-growing global presence, we could totally believe it. Notably,
Nokia is well below 30 percent in Gartner’s report at 28.2, a whopping
drop of 8.5 percent year-over-year — way more than the 4.1
percent drop that IDC’s got pegged. Of course, there’s no way of
knowing which of the two reports is more accurate — and you know how
margins of error work with these things. Hey, at least the rankings are
the same, right?[Thanks, Tad]
Update: As commenters have pointed out, the Gartner report also puts Android at 25.5 percent market share, moving past BlackBerry OS
to become the number two smartphone platform behind Symbian (they’ve
got iOS at third, BlackBerry fourth). Considering the platform’s
trajectory this year and sheer variety of Android phones now being solid
worldwide, it’s no surprise.
And also from Endgadget (h/t BoomBustBlogger Indy):
Nielsen’s
just released a report finding that 29.7 percent of mobile users in
the United States now own a smartphone. Of that 29.7 percent (which you
can see in the pie chart above), 27.9 percent of them have iPhones,
27.4 percent are BlackBerry users, and 22.7 percent have an Android
device. Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux and Palm are left to divide up
the remaining chunk — about 22 percent — of the market. That’s a
massive shift from the beginning of the year, when the iPhone boasted
28 percent of the market, BlackBerry had 35 percent, and Windows Mobile
about 19 percent. The biggest winner in this story is Android, which
has gone from 9 percent of the smartphone-owning market at the beginning of the year,
to 22.7 percent of the market today. The story looks a bit different,
however, when people are asked about what kind of smartphone they would
like to own next. In that case, Apple and Google are the big winners,
with 30 percent of ‘likely’ smartphone upgraders’ reporting they’d like
an iPhone, while 28 percent said they want an Android device, and only
13 percent reporting that they’re interested in a BlackBerry device.
just released a report finding that 29.7 percent of mobile users in
the United States now own a smartphone. Of that 29.7 percent (which you
can see in the pie chart above), 27.9 percent of them have iPhones,
27.4 percent are BlackBerry users, and 22.7 percent have an Android
device. Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux and Palm are left to divide up
the remaining chunk — about 22 percent — of the market. That’s a
massive shift from the beginning of the year, when the iPhone boasted
28 percent of the market, BlackBerry had 35 percent, and Windows Mobile
about 19 percent. The biggest winner in this story is Android, which
has gone from 9 percent of the smartphone-owning market at the beginning of the year,
to 22.7 percent of the market today. The story looks a bit different,
however, when people are asked about what kind of smartphone they would
like to own next. In that case, Apple and Google are the big winners,
with 30 percent of ‘likely’ smartphone upgraders’ reporting they’d like
an iPhone, while 28 percent said they want an Android device, and only
13 percent reporting that they’re interested in a BlackBerry device.
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MSFT need to hit the cheap debt market (their 30yr is what? 5%) and some of their cash hoard and buy up RIMM; then focus on nailing down the enterprise now, before it's too late — if it isn't already. Get some BBerry's out with a better version of the WinPhone7 OS on it and they might just save their sorry ass.
Will be fun to see if the clueless US carrier/operators (ATT, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mo, Verizon, et al.) can take advantage of a pretty good base OS (Android) and new handset and tablet technology, together with high-bandwidth data networks, and rapid (for them) improvements with each software release. I believe they're scared to death, and unprepared for the projected growth in mobile data volume.
China will also be fun to watch as this evolves. They insisted that the base crypto algorithm in 4G/LTE be based on an algorithm "invented" by Chinese researchers. The standards bodies caved after having already vetted and approved different ones. The Chinese said "use our algorithm, or all cell comms in China will be unencrypted". Stream cipher known as ZUC for the tech-inclined.
Android seems like a kiddy phone with the stupid green robot. Can you see a CEO carrying his android phone to a business engagement.
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Linux is open . Android is Open. They aren't stealing anything bergsten.
Andy Rubin got backed by a big company. That is All.
Didn't say they were stealing. But they are certainly taking (or accepting) the credit. Again: must be nice.
There have been plenty of chances and still are for others to make their own version of a phone OS. Not sure what you're complaining about, did you expect it to be free?
Nope. Just expected "credit where credit is due." Like that ever happens.
The "Android OS" is Linux (with the GPL headers stripped out). And Java. Go look at the source for yourself if you don't believe it. It must be nice to be a big, popular company. For anyone else, one might substitute the term "theft" for "innovation."
Not so much bergsten.
The kernel *is* vanilla linux. Much of the user-space code is bsd-based (no GPL license issues). The java jvm and C library were written from scratch by google, but of course are very close to the original open source flavors. Far as I can tell they did it to avoid GPL licensing issues and to provide smaller, lighter, footprint for handheld devices.
So yeah, they reuse a lot of software invented/written elsewhere and open source, but would you rather be stuck w/Apple's iOS little closed world, or RIM's or Symbian's?
For that matter, most of iOS/OS-X is open source as well (mach kernel, bsd user-space libraries, OpenGL/CL, w/some Apple proprietary gfx mixed in)
Personally, I'm looking forward to the new multi-core ARM cores, and the new Android-based tablets. Bullish on rare-earth elements for all the batteries we're going to need.
Yeah, Curly, you're completely correct -- I'm just being grumpy. Still, it would have been nice if all this stuff done by other people and organizations (free or otherwise), were somehow publicly credited, instead of being known as "Google's Android Operating System."
"History is written by the victors."
You seem to be quite confused - using it is the point of Linux: it allows companies like Google to build on Linux and to advance Linux.
Google employs the 'second in command' of Linux (Andrew Morton), and many other top kernel devs, so it's beneficial to everyone involved.
The 'theft' you mention is 100% imagined. You don't seem to recognize freedom in action - I guess we should not be surprised about that.
This will be an interesting battle from a free market philosophy point of view as well: closed, anti-market monopolies (Apple, Microsoft) against open, free-market based Android/Linux approaches (Google, Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson, etc.).
Round 1: Apple got an early lead when it released the iPhone almost four years ago
Round 2: The free market Android approach caught up in just two short years and overtook Apple in this quarter
How will round 3 look like?