Android's UK Market Share Growing Rapidly May be Ahead of Ios

[mrstickball]

famousringo said:

mrstickball said:

famousringo said:

I'll see your one analyst who hasn't said anything and raise you two analysts (Nielsen and IDC) who see a leveling off:

http://www.wpcentral.com/nielsen-has-android-us-marketshare-falling-wp7-hovering

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/21/needham-androids-market-share-peaked-in-march/

Disclaimer on the Nielsen: It's looking at installed base, not share of new sales. Comscore still sees the installed base of Android regress towards the ~50% of new sales it has. That makes Nielsen a little incongruous, but it does suggest a slowdown in Android adoption.

From here, Android in the US might creep up or it might slide down, but I'm pretty confident that the explosive growth seen due to carriers and manufacturers adopting the platform is in the past for that market.

:-

One quarter does not make a trend. Any analyst should know that. Its interesting, but I don't think that one quarter means that Android will forever be locked at that market share.

Are you reading what I'm writing, or are you reading what you wish I had written?

Yes.

You said that Android plateaued. You then said you don't believe that it may increase slightly or slide down. I don't believe it will, thus why I said it wouldn't be locked there - it should continue to increase market share within the next quarter.