Android sales up 41%, gains another 5% of the market

[rudeguy]

http://androidandme.com/2010/09/news/android-grows-41-grabs-another-5-of-smartphone-market-share/


Noticeable number:

RIM: Down 1.8%
Apple: Down 1.3%
MS: Down 2.2%
Palm: even


Google only needs to gain 7% more of the market to overtake Apple...

 

[zerocool84]

What I still find funny is all the ridiculous people who think RIM is dead when they still have such a huge chunk and much more than anyone else.

 

[sciwizam]

Also, that data is only till the end of July, which means it had only 2 weeks of Droid X, Captivate and Vibrant sales and none of the Epic 4G or Fascinate or Droid 2.

The next report will be interesting, the Iphone surge should have flattened out by then.

EDIT: What I find even more interesting is how Palm was able to maintain market share, in an expanding market.

 

[MrX8503]

What I still find funny is all the ridiculous people who think RIM is dead when they still have such a huge chunk and much more than anyone else.

RIM is dying on a consumer level. Their main marketshare is enterprise.

EDIT: What I find even more interesting is how Palm was able to maintain market share, in an expanding market.

I think a lot of Palm users are just hanging on to their Palm Pre's.

Once the iPhone is on all carriers, I think that's gonna shake up the market quite a bit.

 

[sciwizam]

I think a lot of Palm users are just hanging on to their Palm Pre's.

Once the iPhone is on all carriers, I think that's gonna shake up the market quite a bit.

Somebody has to be buying Palm devices to maintain the share in a bigger market. If they are just hanging on, the share should drop.

Also, for IPhone being on all carriers..

Link

Interestingly, it’s not because Android is more widely available. In fact, Android is only available on 59 carriers vs. 154 for iPhone, but the issue is that Apple lacks deals with some of the world’s largest wireless carriers—Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD), Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Germany, NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) and China Mobile.

 

[vshah]

Somebody has to be buying Palm devices to maintain the share in a bigger market. If they are just hanging on, the share should drop.

Also, for IPhone being on all carriers..

Link

these are just US numbers though. iphone being on carriers around the world doesn't affect it at all

 

[AstroManLuca]

RIM is dying on a consumer level. Their main marketshare is enterprise.



I think a lot of Palm users are just hanging on to their Palm Pre's.

Once the iPhone is on all carriers, I think that's gonna shake up the market quite a bit.

Market share != current user base.

If you buy a Palm Pre, you contribute to their market share. Once. As long as you keep using it and you don't buy a new one, you aren't continuing to contribute to their market share.

But yeah, I agree that the biggest surprise is that so many Palm and Windows Mobile devices are still selling. I guess I can see Palm... the Pre is an attractive phone, probably ropes in a few people just with the form factor alone, and the Pixi is one of the smallest, lightest smartphones on the market today. And the providers are practically giving them away. I can see those being popular as secondary lines on family plans.

Windows Mobile though? Any sales they still have has to be driven by corporate purchases.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

 

[DivideBYZero]

RIM is dying on a consumer level.

Surprise: You're wrong.

 

[DivideBYZero]

That's great, but that also includes all S40 based symbian devices, which I wouldn't put into the 'smart' category. E.g., feature phones, Vertu, etc.

If that pie chart is based upon S60 only, then colour me surprised.

 

[MrX8503]

Surprise: You're wrong.

You're right. They're giving them away free.

 

[DivideBYZero]

You're right. They're giving them away free.

See numbers posted in the Quartely announcment thread for evidence to the contrary.

 

[logan08]

Once the iPhone is on all carriers, I think that's gonna shake up the market quite a bit.[/QUOTE]


I agree, I work for Verizon and we have thousands of call per day logged asking if the Iphone/Verizon deal is going through.

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[MrX8503]

With the recent Vcast Appstore on Android, I'm not so sure if Verizon will be getting the iPhone anymore.