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Picture of the week – iPhone vs Others: The Mobile OS Market
On March 30, 2010
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Rooooh what a nice chart ! Gartner should take a lesson here how to present data in their press release
About the content – the fragmentation of the market is just impressive. Is it a battle ? No, it’s a war !
Impressive also to see that though its market share has been decreasing since 2007, Nokia has just blown-up its unit sales again this year!!!
True that Nokia really retails the least expensive mobile phones for the masses. Nokia today is a little bit like Volkswagen in the 40s and 50s. The mobile phone of the people. Volkshandy.
And when you think that everything started from rubber boots… Hey, I should write something about that story too!
I was surprised to see a “Linux” category there, with larger sales than Android (although admittedly, with a sharp declining trend). I guess that’s supposed to mean “Linux-based phones OTHER than Android” – Maebo, Moblin, webOS etc.
Any ideas?
And wow – people still use Windows Mobile?
@ Christian: Well, I guess that it indeed refers to “Linux-based phones OTHER than Android”. And since Gartner has its own way of classifying devices (for the record, Gartner was one of the first analysts group to make a distinction between mobile phones and smartphones… at a time people had no idea what a “smartphone” was! Even journalists from IT publications had troubles understanding the difference between those two categories), I guess we can go with this explanation.
And yes, as crazy as it may appear, some people are using (or re-using*) Windows Mobile…
* Two weeks ago my Nokia N9500 “the brick” fell of my bag (big crack on the screen – unusable). I then remembered I had somewhere an old Qtek 8100 of 2006 (Qtek??! yeah, now HTC!) that could replace my N9500 of 2004 (yeah, vintage fan too!). It just needed a quick undust (with a broom though…) but works just great! I though must say that Windows Mobile REALLY SUCKS in terms of how friendly the user interface is… but hey, I can make and receive calls!
And if that doesn’t work, just use smoke signals