The iPhone’s Share: 17.25 Percent of Smartphones, 4.2 Percent of All Phones
Horace Dediu:
The iPhone ended the quarter with 17.25% smartphone share and 4.2%
phone share. Share of revenues was about 22% and share of earnings
was about 51%.
I still hold that 20% smartphone share is possible for the iPhone.
As the smartphone market slowly becomes the entire phone market
that share will be worth something.
Can Apple dominate — or at [...]
Canalys: ‘Google’s Android Becomes the World’s Leading Smart Phone Platform’
The iPhone doubled, but the year-over-year growth for Android is just astronomical. According to these numbers from Canalys, the iPhone doubled in terms of shipments year-over-year, but dropped slightly (one-third of a percentage) in overall smartphone market share. RIM’s shipments are up, Nokia’s shipments are up, but the only OS with year-over-year smartphone market share [...]
Many Macworld Attendees Don’t Have a Smartphone
Leander Kahney:
Here’s a surprising statistic from Macworld 2011: about 40% of
show goers don’t have a smartphone.
That was the number given to me at a meetup on the show’s last
night. It was from someone who ran a competition all week in one
of the booths. To win a prize, entrants had to download an app to
their smartphone [...]
Why Is Dropbox More Popular Than Other Tools With Similar Functionality?
Michael Wolfe, on Quora:
Well, let’s take a step back and think about the sync problem and
what the ideal solution for it would do:
There would be a folder.
You’d put your stuff in it.
It would sync.
They built that.
Yup.
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iPad’s Future Prospects for Tablet Market Share
Bloomberg:
A wider range of cheaper devices with Google features like YouTube
and Google Maps will probably erode the ipad’s market dominance,
said Neil Mawston, director at Strategy Analytics. Its share of
the global tablet market will probably drop to 67 percent this
quarter, he said.
We now know this is factually wrong. Those numbers are based on Samsung’s claims of [...]
Eric Raymond Analyzes the Smartphone Market
Eric Raymond:
First: We can expect Verizon’s iPhone sales to be anemic. A bit
of arithmetic applied to this chart tells us Verizon has been
churning about 93M * 1.42% * 3 = 396K customers a quarter — about
the same as that deadly 400K. The smart way to bet is that most of
Verizon’s potential Apple customers decamped to [...]
Intel Discovers Bug in 6-Series Chipset
AnandTech:
The fix requires new hardware, which means you will have to
exchange your motherboard for a new one. Intel hasn’t posted any
instructions on how the recall will be handled other than to
contact Intel via its support page or contact the manufacturer of
your hardware directly. In speaking with motherboard manufacturers
it seems they are as surprised by this [...]
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PlayStation Move PC drivers inbound?
GDC talk listing suggest so
Is Sony about to start offering developers the chance to use the PlayStation Move with a PC?
That’s the suggestion from some after seeing a talk listing for GDC by Sony that suggests just that.
Delegates to the Games Developers Conference (GDC) in February will have a chance to listen to John McCutchan [...]
The Google Periodic Table
Graphic: It’s 96 products realised as elements
What would all of Google’s products and services look like if you put them in a sort of periodic table? Well funny you should say that, because that’s exactly what Google has done on its code site – recreated it’s products and services as a periodic table.
Google has turned [...]
