Android to own 50% of smartphone marketshare by 2012
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- Boz
Hate to tell some people who were telling me how Apple will rule this and that, I told you so.. but Gartner just came out with a report that says that it's expected that Android will have 50% of worldwide smartphone market-share by end of 2012..
Guess what.. second place with almost 20%.. Windows Phone 7..
Crazy!
- aanderton0
Windows phone is forecast to have 10.8% by 2012, don't know where you got 20% from.
- detritus0
Your position might make sense had anyone, outside of the over-excitable domain of Apple fanboyism or the clueless veneer-focused world of hipsters and designers, ever expected iPhone to be a percentage leader in the smartphone sector.
They never have.
- +1monospaced
- but it did.. I've been fed with bullshit from Apple fanboys how iOS will own the market and kill this and that.. and how Android has no chance and so on..Boz
- has no chance and so on, for years now.. and I've always said that Apple will go back to OSX marketshare because of their business model..and bitches like you were all up in arms professing stupid shit and how I was nuts.. nice try at trying to make at is if it was so obvious Android would kill iOS in marketshare.Boz
- their business model..and bitches like you were all up in arms professing stupid shit and how I was nuts.. nice try at trying to make at is if it was so obvious Android would kill iOS in marketshare.Boz
- nice attempt at trying to make at is if it was so obvious Android would kill iOS in marketshare.Boz
- it's ironic since you're doing exactly the same thing for Android. It's like you're personally invested in itmonospaced
- I'm not now, nor ever have been an Apple fanboy. I'm a PC, so I'm not sure why you think that.detritus
- Unless, of course, you're blithely conflating my dislike of Flash as anything more than mechanic for flashy media..detritus
- I was talking to Boz. Sorry detritus.monospaced
- ..with your polarised worldview of Us vs. Them, a trait oft-belied by unthinking types..detritus
- Me too, don't worry.detritus
- OBBTKN0
And growing
- dskz0
McDonalds owns a large part of their market too.
- That must mean they have the best food!Josev
- lol, touchemonNom
- Good one!numero1
- Not a good analogy to be honest.404NotFound
- vaxorcist0
win7 phones = 18%. ..wtf?!?.. maybe a ton of discount nokia phones, and/or corporate IT depts forcing people to use them rather than blackberries if MS somehow integrates them into Winblows IT dept stuff....
and yes, I have a motorola Q9m, an old windows phone, it's ok...
- ESKEMA0
Apple makes thoughtful products top to bottom, 1 handset per year (so far) with integrated OS. It's 1 company with 1 handset.
Android is a platform, open to any manufacturer (so far).
It's Apple vs everybody else, I mean, who would think apple would rule smartphone market share? They never did and never will. And I'm pretty sure that's not their goal.
It's basically the same as desktop, little market share but with the highest profits.
The only market share they have above the others is ipod and ipad, because they basically introduced the products to a non existent market, and they will keep it theirs. On the phone side, they entered a really though ground and managed to keep climbing the ladder by themselves. I think it's pretty impressive to get where they are now, I always thought the iphone would be a small niche like mac vs pc.
Anyone who would think they could rule all smartphone market share is nuts to begin with.- not really.. I've been told that iOS will dominate the mobile market for years now.. and they will end up being nothing really in the long run.Boz
- in the long run.Boz
- who told you that is an idiotESKEMA
- Also, you're a fucking RETARD if you think they'll "end up being nothing," Bozmonospaced
- ben_0
Now if only I could update my Samsung Galaxy S to the new os...
- monospaced0
Congratulations. Basically, by next year, they believe that finally several companies combined, with probably 30 different phone models and a handful of OS versions, will finally catch up to what a single phone and company has done. You say this as if Apple is just going to stop innovating.
- monospaced0
Boz, you act as if Apple's success is a personal attack against you.
- how so?Boz
- loltgqt
- Because you wrote "I told you so" as if you were being attacked by Apple. It's very juvenile.monospaced
- You take it so personally that you have to write "Hate to say..." even though you love it. You are defensive FOR Android. It's pathetic.monospaced
- Android. It's pathetic, yet entertaining.monospaced
- loltgqt
- tgqt0
I'm happy to be and android and ios user.
Two awesome toolsets. How lucky to have a choice.
Thanks for the link Boz....the Microsoft 2015 numbers are a surprise, but considering how much I can do on a phone/tablet these days they had better get moving as this is the new desktop.
- monospaced0
What's "Crazy!" Boz, is that you're getting fanatical about fucking predictions for years from now. They're nothing more than that, so your issues with people making bold predictions about Apple are really ungrounded since you're doing the same by hyping up predictions about other companies. Windows phone with 20% in 4 years? ANYTHING can happen in that time frame.
- seeessess0
IT'S ONLY A PHONE
- harlequino0
Yeah yeah. This and the IDC report are pretty meaningless. The moment anyone establishes true scaleability for digital products in handsets and tablets, and completely retools how an industry makes money (like the music industry for example), all these numbers and predictions shift related to how easy and profitable it is to go to market on a platform at a given time.
- ESKEMA0
Boz, you're beeing ridicule to the point where any thread in here mentioning Android or Apple, I automatically think that a) it must be you who started it, or b) you're going to step in with some magical numbers about flash or Android and Apple shit this that.
Do you work for Google or something, do you think you owe them for any reason and defend them at all costs? Have you a vendetta towards Apple?? I simply can't understand where all your rage come from... You're more blinded than all the apple fanboys you criticize.- who defends who? I just posted a number and said I expected this to be like this.. you are the one who's all butthurt.Boz
- so ironic, Boz. Take a step back and look at what you're doing here. You might be surprised at your troll-like qualities.monospaced
- Boz! You've been butthurt for YEARS by Apple fans telling you their phones are good. You're such a fucking tool.monospaced
- Apple users ≠ Apple stock holdersraf
- Boz0
@monospaced
No.. what's crazy is that I've been listening to shithead fanboys for years now saying how iOS will dominate this and that and how it is the best and how Android is shit and will never take off..
Years ago..I said that Android will rule the market to people.. very calmly.. and I was told that it's bullshit and that Apple owns this shit by a ton of Apple fans.
Not necessarily here but in general.. my initial comment was mostly referring to the fact that i mentioned this a couple of years ago..
And you are right..anything can happen..but it is most likely that Android will go even higher in market share..and Apple will go down even more..
Just remember what YOU were saying 2 years ago and what you reactions were when someone told you that Android will grow 1000% in a year and hold almost 40% of marketshare in 2011.
You were most likely among those who were laughing and shit..
and what's really annoying.. is that now you are all acting as if it was all totally expected..
That's what annoys me.. not Apple's success..
- Apple has only been in the market for less than 4 years. You're talking about numbers that far from now...idiotmonospaced
- Who cares about market share other than the companies themselves??ESKEMA
- Boz you are the least entitled person to call anyone a fanboy, look at yourself goernexbcn
- you are the one talking? LOLBoz
- monospaced0
I mean, if you're going to give the metaphorical middle finger to Apple with some crushing Android marketshare numbers, next time make sure they're not completely fucking fictional. Just sayin'
- zenmasterfoo0
I guess we can now label you an Android hipster fanboy who believes the Android OS will grab and keep market share..
oh how the tables turn... yawn.
- monospaced0
"Just remember what YOU were saying 2 years ago and what you reactions were when someone told you that Android will grow 1000% in a year and hold almost 40% of marketshare in 2011.
You were most likely among those who were laughing and shit.."
I didn't say shit, you fucking tool. You make assumptions about anything, and we all know what that means. You are worse than a troll..
- why are you so butt hurt.. take it easy.. live a little.Boz
- I'm not butt hurt, dude. I could care less. I have neither an iPhone nor an Android.monospaced
- seeessess0
"That's what annoys me.. not Apple's success.."
You need to step away from computers/internet/technology/ph... Go outside, breath some air, do something fucking useful rather than moan about who has the "market share" of the mobile phone market.