| damndl0ser said: I know that in Dec 09 Apple had 25% of the marketshare so if your numbers are indeed correct android stole 8% of their market share and gained from others as well. And I guess MS must have lost 20% some where cause the last numbers I saw they were 25% (which is very significant). Guess it goes to show you that when it comes to smartphones, being new is king. Not saying your wrong (I think your numbers are right). I just couldn't find your numbers anywhere on a quick search, I didn't have time to look in more detail. |
I think one reason for the big differences in the numbers is that your numbers are U.S. market shares only, while my numbers are worldwide. Furthermore I think your numbers are quite old, because I know I've recently read that Android has surpassed iPhone OS in the USA.
Anyway, my numbers are from the Gartner group:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1421013
Personally, I don't think that being new is king. iPhone OS is a couple of years old right now, and they are still expanding their market share, even though only a little. Web OS on the other hand (the one used in recent Palm Smartphones) is quite new and actually a really nice OS, but Palm still lost most of its market share.
