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Who’s Afraid Of Apple & Google? Not Symbian
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“The US market for smart phones has been mostly enterprise related, but Apple has jump started the consumer demand for smart phone,” he said in a chat earlier today at our offices. “Apple’s market share gains show that devices can make a difference,” said Panagrossi.
He believes now handset makers will start thinking about making interesting and innovative handsets available in the US. Hopefully some of them will be using Symbian’s mobile OS, commonly found in high-end Nokia (NOK) and Sony Ericsson (SNE) mobile phones.
The number of Symbian-based phones increased 44% to 34.6 million in the first six months of 2007 from 24 million in 1H 2006, with a quarter of those sales coming from Japan. The recent success of Nokia N95 and E-Series phones has also helped Symbian boost its revenues to about $172 million. It is not clear if the company turned a profit.
I’m mainly posting this for the graph:
Here’s what Stephen Fry has to say about the smartphone market:
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I could issue forth quires of intemperate fury on the subject of how bad internet account configuration is on the UIQ Sony Ericssons. It’s utterly pointless. Is there not one person at either Sony E or Symbian who themselves uses the phone and says “hang on, we could do this better”? That’s all it takes. Just one person to point at the Emperor and shout “nudie!” That’s why Apple is Apple, they have people there (and of course it comes from the top) who say – “woah, not good enough, not cool enough, not simple enough, not fun enough, not sexy enough, not clever enough, not useful enough”. The P1i is what happens when “oh, that’ll do” becomes the corporate motto. UIQ promised something, the actual GUI is reasonable, in fact quite delightful, but it needed refinement, it needed acceleration and it needed flair. Instead we’ve got a very, very slow device that eats power, is difficult to use in varying environments and frequently hangs and crashes. In a word unusable. And I can just hear them hiding behind the excuse of “price” and “sectors of the market” and other bullshit. What, Apple’s a bigger company than Sony? Got more muscle? What muscle it has got, it got from daring to be better. That was once true of Sony too. Of Ericsson I cannot speak …
Don’t these people get it?
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The graph really tells you who controls the US market.
RIM?
Never heard of that OS, but must be wonderful.
And I meant it as a reply to the “who controls the US market”.
But you’ve heard of Blackberry, I assume?
Yes, I heard, though never seen any. It runs the RIM OS?
Honestly, I know he was referring to Windows. Which has about the same share as the RIM.
So telling that Windows controls the market is a bit of a stretch.
It runs the RIM OS?
Check the domain name in the link to the blackberry: http://www.rim.com/
blackberry.com
Anyway, Microsoft’s Windows and the RIM OS has about the same size of marketshare.
So no one is “controlling” the market.
So Microsoft’s Windows and the RIM OS has about the same size of marketshare.
So no one is “controlling” the market.