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Apple Continues to Close on Nokia for Title of World's Top Smartphone Vendor
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Android is not going away. But its popularity will go down I predict.
There already is a strange statistic with women not using Android in a large disproportion.
I keep reading comments about Android having more free apps than iOS. That is supposed to be a selling point. Well on iOS itself there are free apps and apps for a price. In most cases, there is a difference in quality.
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I hope that someday soon the only phone to be sold will be the iPhone. Can you imagine the great feeling to know that every phone in the world is an iPhone?
It would be similar to the feeling that almost every PC in the world is running Windows, wouldn't?
Windows dominance doesn't make me feel good either. I like a variety of good choices. Life would be pretty boring if we all looked the same, dressed the same and drove the same cars.
I've changed my mind, actually I should say Apples pushing me away with their gumbo stew of iOS & OS X.
I'm just researching it so far, but Windows Phone 7 is now on my list. I have a friend with an Omnia 7, I am very impressed. Battery life is amazing.
I plan on waiting for Apple (what's new?) to see what kind of mixed up OS comes out of their experiment. I'd like to think its something beneficial. I like Apple too much to leave unless they totally get wacky with crazy changes just because the gullible will buy anything Apple.
It doesn't matter if Windows/Mac is 90/10... 75/25... or 50/50...
You can always choose what you like.
My point is that Windows which is much more dominant than Android or iOS in its sector still permits a healthy amount of competition and the ability for me as a consumer to choose what's best for me. It is even giving up ground (to Microsoft's disappointment). I don't worry about Windows (I use it in fact) in spite of my personal preference for Mac OS X. If iOS is better for most consumers, then most consumers will buy it.
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Nokia Is Just Catching Their Breath....
Until they are fully squared up with their new partner.....MAKER OF THE MIGHTY....ZUNE!!!!
Until they are fully squared up with their new partner.....MAKER OF THE MIGHTY....ZUNE!!!!
Every phone is already an iphone.
Some people buy the original iphone
Some buy the iphone copies with different names
Why would you want that? That would kill creativity and you would know longer have the pride of owning a device cooler than most other people's phones
Everyone with an iPhone sounds robotic. They would be boring. Some people love not having to think or be responsible. They are the ones here that quote Steve, it never ceases to amaze me how that fulfills them.
Nokia sold 453 million phones in 2010.
Their main market isn't smartphones because the vast majority of people don't want or can't afford smartphones.
Nokia's major problem is that it hasn't been able to keep up with what a "smartphone" is since the introduction of iPhones and Android devices, so it looks like it's doing very badly because all that the media and users tend to talk about is the latest gadgets.
The most popular Nokia phone (and most popular phone ever sold - by any company) is the Nokia 1100 - it's clearly not a Smartphone.
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Two iPhone models (the 3GS and the 4) have been sold at the same time for almost a year now.
Smartphones were predominately male-owned for a decade, so it's true that the iPhone is unusual because an almost equal percentage of females and males buy it.
True, Google Maps on Android is higher quality than the version on iOS. Ditto is often said for YouTube. Some apps like USAToday are also a little better on Android.
However, most of the apps I use daily on both iOS and Android are about equivalent. Trulia, eBay, Amazon, Cars, Kayak, Birds, mail, weather.
Other than that, iOS has the more globally available copy/paste. Android has its globally available voice input. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
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Given how many devices they have on the market, those numbers are horrible - compare it to Apple: one smart phone (plus the older version) on the market and still sells more devices than Samsung with their boat load of different devices.
No.1 is easy!
For Apple to overtake Nokia in global sales, all they would have to do is end their exclusive agreement with Japan's worst carrier Softbank and allow the iPhone to be sold on NTT DoCoMo and AU networks. One would hypothesize that should be good for at least another 3 ~ 4 million units shipped annually.
For Apple to overtake Nokia in global sales, all they would have to do is end their exclusive agreement with Japan's worst carrier Softbank and allow the iPhone to be sold on NTT DoCoMo and AU networks. One would hypothesize that should be good for at least another 3 ~ 4 million units shipped annually.
I thought smart phones in general are not big in Japan and everybody was already surprised how many iPhones they sold through Softbank (at least that is what I was reading on the web - you might have more insights since you are in japan)
Nokia WP7 phones will create trouble for Apple
The only trouble that will happen is for either Nokia or MS or both. One of them is going to seriously regret the partnership. As long as Apple keeps doing what they're doing, they're completely secure in their market. They've got it completely locked thanks to their solid differentiation by offering the sort of experience only a vertical business model can provide. Don't worry about Apple. They're set for the next 5-7 years.
Back to Microstupid: ANY strategic decision made by MS should be automatically suspect as long as Ballmer is at the helm. Even seemingly good decisions will probably have some aspect that is a complete f-up waiting to happen.
Don't trust MS in any progressive market (mainly anything and everything mobile) as long as monkey-boy runs the show.
By the way, as for RIM, I called it in 2009, along with the death of Palm when Rubinstein was at the height of mouthing off about Apple (mentioned in another thread of mine):
This time it'll be permanent.
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