Amazing, how much penetration Win Mobile has in the US-- must be the IT stooges in Enterprise again.
This is another indicator of how huge the iPhone is going to be in a few years. It looks like other countries might consider quality instead of just bending over and accepting MSFT junk.
Absolutely agree. Especially the penetration of Symbian overseas -- while it's very functional, it speads itself out over too many platforms to be very good on any specific one, at least if my E61i experience is representative. So there's a lot of market opportunity out there, and Apple doesn't need 50% market share to be wildly successful either. As Jobs has noted, even 1% world-wide market share next year would be a huge success.
Interesting chart.
Am I reading it correctly when I assume the X-axis is indicating size of market? Because that would mean the North American smartphone market is less than half the size of the Japanese market, ande about 1/3rd the size of the Euro Market one, and slightly smaller than the Chinese one. Okay, defining smartphones would be useful, cause this slide is produced by "Symbian", one might conclude they skewed the definition to include as many Symbian phones as possible.
Carl said:
"Apple's market share in North America is not only visible, but exceeds that of Microsoft in other non-US geographies."
Huh? Then U.S. Windows Mobile exceeds PRC Linux and Japan Linux.
Anyway, Linux and Windows Mobile and are the only challengers to Symbian as an OS. RIM and Apple phone OS are proprietary. Although, I suppose OSX/Darwin can be used, but noone is interested.
Under $50 mobile phones are coming. Also Google phone that is Linux-based is coming. How will those change the market?
"Linux and Windows Mobile and are the only challengers to Symbian as an [open]OS"
Oooh--gutsy putting LINUX and MSFT in the same sentence. Gutsier still, implying MSFT is one of the "good" guys. Because they license their phone OS? Who gives a darn? I want the best USER EXPERIENCE, open or "proprietary",and the only thing MSFT EVER delivers is a world of pain.
Tom B wrote:
"It looks like other countries might consider quality instead of just bending over and accepting MSFT junk."
Symbian OS has the largest marketshare overseas because Nokia owns 48% of Symbian and Nokia has one-third of the worldwide mobile phone market. The question is why Symbian OS has not penetrated the U.S. Symbian is currently owned by Nokia (47.9%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Panasonic (10.5%), Siemens AG (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%), according to its Wikipedia entry.
Linux and Windows Mobile are the best platforms for other phone manufacturers and developers. Can't help Tom B that you are anti-MSFT.
"Linux and Windows Mobile are the best platforms for other phone manufacturers and developers."
I am only interested in what is best for the CONSUMER--me-not what the various phone makers prefer. That's the thing companies don't seem to grasp.
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