an article on mobile platforms BB, iPhone, symbian, android
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9999991-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
I guess iPhones hype is bigger than it's actual market share. I find it interesting how such a big deal has been made in the media on how many total units sold and how many apps were downloaded. But the same can be said for any new popular platforms new device. There's no denying that apple made a product that people like.
Developers apparently don't hate the platform for developing, but I get the impression that mostly the apps available are just cross platform apps that were already made for the other platforms. Basically beyond the initial surge due to its brand newness and opening up the platform to 3rd party development where will things stand in the mobile world?
My prediction is between now and the close of fiscal year 2009 is that in order from largest to smallest market share will be:
#1 Blackberry
#2 iPhone
#3 Palm (counting palms using winmo)
#4 windows mobile
Palm (not palmsource) is supposed to be releasing their new OS in 1Q2009 and highly likely will have devices out hand in hand with the new OS. This could very well give the iPhone a run for #2 market share. But competition is good. That means as consumers we will get to see all sorts of advancement in devices and prices stay low as each competitor tries to out do the others.
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