Mobile Marketshare
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- aldebaran0
*googles sybain
- CALLES0
im getting evo 3d in a couple of weeks... update is due so just 50 bucks
- dbloc0
Symbian = Nokia
RIM = Blackberry
- registe0
strangely enough, the first i heard of symbian was from a friends brand new nokia astound this morning. not impressed.
- duhsign0
androidddddd ; )
android phone + ipad2 + macbookpro = ^5
- Boz0
Here's what I think the mobile landscape will look like worldwide by 2015.
by late 2012, it is expected for Android to own 50% of the mobile marketshare worldwide.
By 2015 I wouldn't be surprised that number goes up to about 60%.
I can see Nokia/Microsoft going and keeping their existing audience but as Symbian is dying by 2016, this marketshare will be replaced by Windows Phone 7 on Nokia device.
So by 2015 I think Windows Phone 7 powered devices will have about 20% of the marketshare.
Apple should settle at around 10%. RIM will continue falling to about 5-6 percent. I think in the end Apple will be fighting RIM for that niche, proprietary closed up platforms as RIM has a very similar approach as Apple in terms of being closed up and offering their own OS and their own hardware.
Next year though, I think we will see massive increase in Android due to insane amounts of Android/Honeycomb tablets
Android itself should be at about 45-50% by end of next year.
- Boz0
I always said.. developers should develop for Android first..
the more you get established and more you publish beautiful looking apps the more money you will make on Android because there's so much more space there and a chance to really stand out not to mention that the market is so much bigger and will pretty much own everything in the next 10 years including appliances and shit in our homes too..and I'm talking about app stores beyond Android marketplace. Samsung just showed new types of refrigerators utilizing Android and the NFC support is undoubtably coming that will allow us to pass by our fridge and it will sync the missing groceries to our phones etc..
The amount of money generated by Android in the next 2-3 years will be simply incomparable to any other platform, not to mention very very tight integration with web apps too and mobile web in-app purchasing and seamless integration between web and Android devices.
Let's just remember what happened with Windows and those developers who built great software on Windows platform as it was growing.. they all became multi-billion dollar companies.
If people are building apps for iOS first and not Android, they are doing it wrong! Everyone should build for Android first because it's the smart long term strategy that will pay off in spades in next 2-3 years. Once you have the main stuff built for Android you can start porting it to iOS, simply because you will be able to take your mainstream mobile OS platform features and tailor them to iOS.. If you started with iOS there are things that simply tie you to iOS and how Apple wants you to do it and it severely limits your capability of going wide in terms of platforms.