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From: John Navas on 11 Mar 2010 10:32
Android Dominates, Windows Mobile Plummets, iPhone Stagnant

The results are in from comScore for the most recent quarter for
smartphone usage in the United States. With smartphone use up 18 percent
over the previous quarter, topping 42 million users, Google's Android
mobile operating system stands out as the dominant winner for this
quarter.

The smartphone statistics from this quarter demonstrate that the
smartphone is still viewed primarily as a business tool rather than a
consumer toy. Businesses and business professionals continue to embrace
BlackBerry and Android devices, in all of their many shapes and forms,
over the Apple iPhone.

Verizon's massive marketing effort leading to the launch of the Motorola
Droid, and Google's major media attention for the introduction of the
Nexus One appear to have paid off. Android more than doubled its market
share over the previous quarter--jumping more than 250 percent from 2.8
percent of the U.S. smartphone market to 7.1 percent.

Apparently, much of that market share increase came at Microsoft's
expense. Microsoft finally unveiled the next generation Windows Phone 7
platform, but that hasn't helped stop the bleeding for the current
Windows Mobile devices. In fact, the lack of a path to upgrade current
devices to the new Windows Phone 7 operating system when it arrives, and
the lack of backward compatibility to run current Windows Mobile apps
probably mean Microsoft can expect sharp losses in the next quarter as
well.

....

.... Apple may have reached a saturation point when it comes to consumer
adoption of a smartphone device.

MORE:
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/191238/android_dominates_windows_mobile_plummets_iphone_stagnant.html>
From: nospam on 11 Mar 2010 12:27
In article <5u2ip5puvas9op5fmcpbj9kjjmo2ralmth(a)navasgroup.com>, John
Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:

> Android Dominates, Windows Mobile Plummets, iPhone Stagnant
>
> The results are in from comScore for the most recent quarter for
> smartphone usage in the United States. With smartphone use up 18 percent
> over the previous quarter, topping 42 million users, Google's Android
> mobile operating system stands out as the dominant winner for this
> quarter.

maybe in growth but android is in fourth place, by *their* numbers.
that's a very odd definition of 'dominant winner.'

> The smartphone statistics from this quarter demonstrate that the
> smartphone is still viewed primarily as a business tool rather than a
> consumer toy. Businesses and business professionals continue to embrace
> BlackBerry and Android devices, in all of their many shapes and forms,
> over the Apple iPhone.

70% of fortune 100 companies are currently deploying or testing iphone
apps.

> Verizon's massive marketing effort leading to the launch of the Motorola
> Droid, and Google's major media attention for the introduction of the
> Nexus One appear to have paid off. Android more than doubled its market
> share over the previous quarter--jumping more than 250 percent from 2.8
> percent of the U.S. smartphone market to 7.1 percent.

it's easy to double market share when it's in the low single digits,
and even with that growth, they're in fourth place.

> ... Apple may have reached a saturation point when it comes to consumer
> adoption of a smartphone device.

'may have.' what about rim? their growth was very small too. that's
also saturated.

expect iphone sales to spike when the next model is released, as it
always does. sampling per quarter is very dependent on which model is
'the latest.'
From: SMS on 11 Mar 2010 12:52
nospam wrote:
> In article <5u2ip5puvas9op5fmcpbj9kjjmo2ralmth(a)navasgroup.com>, John
> Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> Android Dominates, Windows Mobile Plummets, iPhone Stagnant
>>
>> The results are in from comScore for the most recent quarter for
>> smartphone usage in the United States. With smartphone use up 18 percent
>> over the previous quarter, topping 42 million users, Google's Android
>> mobile operating system stands out as the dominant winner for this
>> quarter.
>
> maybe in growth but android is in fourth place, by *their* numbers.
> that's a very odd definition of 'dominant winner.'

Yes, they're talking about growth rates. Android, since it's starting
from such a low number to begin with, is of course going to have a much
faster growth rate than the iPhone.

The other thing helping Android is that it's being adopted by businesses
for applications that the iPhone isn't suitable for, while the iPhone is
almost exclusively sold into the consumer space. It's similar to what
happened back in the 1980's when the Apple II was very popular with
consumers, but the open architecture, IBM PC ended up dominating the
commercial and industrial market, and soon the consumer market as well.

Of course nothing is stopping Apple from coming out with products
targeted at the business and commercial market, but they seem to be
uncomfortable marketing to those sorts of customers, since those
customers won't accept the level of control that iPhone customers accept.

[alt.cellular.cingular removed, Cingular no longer exists]
From: nospam on 11 Mar 2010 13:10
In article <4b992dd0$0$1582$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>, SMS
<scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote:

> The other thing helping Android is that it's being adopted by businesses
> for applications that the iPhone isn't suitable for, while the iPhone is
> almost exclusively sold into the consumer space.

wrong.
From: SMS on 11 Mar 2010 13:52
nospam wrote:
> In article <4b992dd0$0$1582$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>, SMS
> <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote:
>
>> The other thing helping Android is that it's being adopted by businesses
>> for applications that the iPhone isn't suitable for, while the iPhone is
>> almost exclusively sold into the consumer space.
>
> wrong.

Sorry, you have no idea what you're talking about.

I'm sure you are well aware of the reasons that the iPhone has been
deployed by very few major corporations:

1. AT&T only. AT&T�s coverage and network performance are not good
enough for business usage in many parts of the country. Verizon is the
carrier of choice for most major corporations because their network,
both voice and data, has more coverage, is more reliable, and is faster
in the real world (we're not talking about maximum theoretical peak speed).

2. Lacks the security and manageability of BlackBerrys that are used
with an Enterprise server.

3. No slide-out keyboard. For business users that are primarily using
the phone for e-mail, texting, or entering data, the soft keyboard is
not sufficient.

4. Tethering. The lack of tethering in the U.S. means that a business
that wants their employees to be able to use their laptops on the 3G
network has to buy a 3G modem for the employee, and pay twice for data
service, once for the iPhone, once for the 3G modem.

That's not to say Apple will never come out with products more suitable
for the corporate environment, they could easily do a corporate version
of the iPhone that solves at least three of the four major issues, but
they haven't done so yet.
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