iPhone/iTouch sells 30 million in 19 months

[averyblund]

Jo21 said:

applications are standarize though something that run in the symbian 3rd will run on symbian 5 and so on, and nokia been using the same ti omap 2 and freescale chips for a while.

they have it easy compared to windows mobile thousand configurations.

 

 

 

A couple of quick things. First off Symbian is down to about 43% they have lost almost 10% of their share in the last year, mostly to Apple and RIM (Blackberry). Again they don't have a worldwide presence anymore since they virtually pulled out of the Americas a few years about. No presence in the US or Japan = no serious dev support. Secondly many Nokia's still only run Java applets even some of the lower level "smartphones".

I think the problem with the way you are looking at this is that you are looking at units shipped, not whether people actually use the functions of the phone. Let me give you a quote to illustrate my point:

-ComScore's report, cited by InformationWeek, said that just 3.8% of mobile subscribers have downloaded a game to their mobile phone, compared to 32.4% of iPhone users. 

Here is an illustration showing the mobile web browsing marketshare from last month

The very reliable Net Applications composed it it does NOT include Touch numbers. To put this into context the iPhone makes about almost .50% of web queries. That is insane considering it is only one device vs. every computer/cell/pda currently on the net.

 

What I draw from this is that many people buy a Samsung or a Nokia and then never download software or use its advanced features. The iPhone on the other hand seems to be used a lot more to its fullest (gaming, web, ect).

 

This is why while install base is a decent metric in some cases, it fails miserably here.