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Gartner: iPhone Doubles Share of Smartphone Market Over Year-Ago Quarter

8CoreWhore said:
I disagree with everyone above and I am absolutely right and I don't have to explain why or even read your post so you can go back to sleep now. Oh, and everyone below as well and from now on. :p
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8CoreWhore is not an idiot. :p

Anyways, yay Apple! I wonder if that marketshare is determined by number of units sold, amount of $$$ taken in (since smart phones can cost different) or total number currently in use.
 
scotty321 said:
Which makes you completely and totally unqualified to write a reply to my post, which you proceeded to do anyways.

Wow, I would really love to have a real-world conversation with you -- you're the guy who's always interrupting people mid-sentence to MAKE YOUR POINT HEARD, NO MATTER WHAT ANYBODY ELSE IN THE ROOM IS SAYING!

Get some manners and respect.
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Ok, ENOUGH WITH THE CAPS ALREADY.

I read your entire post and aside from you bragging about how rich your friends are, the only thing you did was bash AT&T. Yay for you.

I've had Sprint, and can personally vouch for the crappy coverage in North Orange County. Does that mean it's crappy everywhere? No. But it does mean that not everybody has the same coverage everywhere. So running around making blanket statements about AT&T's lousy coverage, that you can't back up with numbers, is senseless.
 
scotty321 said:
Which makes you completely and totally unqualified to write a reply to my post, which you proceeded to do anyways.

Wow, I would really love to have a real-world conversation with you -- you're the guy who's always interrupting people mid-sentence to MAKE YOUR POINT HEARD, NO MATTER WHAT ANYBODY ELSE IN THE ROOM IS SAYING!

Get some manners and respect.
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Scotty321, he was spot on with his comments. Don't be so defensive...
 
Andrew K. said:
Damn Nokia Sells that Much :eek::eek::eek: Wow must be the N and Music Express Series but I don't see that many people with them in the U.S. , maybe over seas?? Wow
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Nokia has virtually no meaningful market penetration in the US. In Europe and Asia they utterly dominate.
 
guzhogi said:
And pretty much all the schools in the district I work in are proverbial black holes for cell signal. Doesn't matter which carrier. Walk into any of the schools and you're lucky if you get any reception whatsoever. But then again, pretty much all the schools were built like 50 years ago & probably built to resist nuclear bombs (gotta love the 1950's!).
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BUILT TO RESIST NUCLEAR BOMBS? Say that again and listen to how it sounds, LOL!!! Some schools built in the 50's had a bomb shelter in the basement, including my old high school... but I'm pretty sure the rest of the building (which apparently blocks cell signals) were not built any more solid than your typical office building.
 
Worst Phones Won

Nokia and Research in Motion have terrible interfaces for their phones. You would have to not know of anything better to love those phones. I would rather use Windows Mobile. I am glad Microsoft, Palm, and Google will follow Apple with their interfaces.
 
NewSc2 said:
I had Verizon before I switched to the iPhone. Honestly, I got dropped calls and dead zones with Verizon, too. I wouldn't say I have any more or less dropped calls/dead zones with AT&T. There's a notorious spot in my local Costco that I get 1 or 2 bars in, but virtually everywhere else I get full coverage.
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I've had both for many years, at the same time, and AT&T's coverage sucks compared to Verizon's - way more dead zones, way more interference hot spots (5 bars to 0 to 5 and accompanying dropped calls), etc. My iPhone drops 10x calls what my old LG VX8000 dropped on Verizon in the same places in the Bay Area - L.A. was actually not nearly as bad.
 
TheOrioles33 said:
You're joking, right? I tremble everytime I see a Zune. Oh wait, I've never seen one in person! :)
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Yeah, I was just be facetious. ... but, what if I WAS serious?

I just imagined what a lot of MS geeks are saying everytime they see Apple making headway.
 
If I don't see Motorola on that list at all, does that mean it's time for me to give up my ROKR E1?
 
Nokia's are de-facto standard for a lot of companies (mine has literally 10's of thousands dumb and smart phones).... just can't go wrong with them. India has a hell of a lot of Nokia phones too.

My N95 8GB has been a dream, the N97 is up for pre-order so i'll be getting one of those when they come out :)

Nokia's are to Europeans what Motorola was in the US, except Nokia's are pretty decent.

It's good to see the iPhone doing well but i just don't like how Apple are so iPhone centric, the app store has become a bit of a joke it's too overloaded and the number of app's on people's phones makes it look too cluttered and a bit messy to be honest, anyone been to a Apple store recently it's basically a iPhone store with a few computers shoved to the back.
 
Cartoonkid said:
I read your entire post and aside from you bragging about how rich your friends are, the only thing you did was bash AT&T. Yay for you.
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I read it too and it just sounds to me like his friend has something in her house that is interfering with the reception of AT&T's signal but doesn't affect other carriers. That's not unheard-of. There are stores here in my home town where my wife's phone loses its signal completely (Verizon) and I don't (AT&T). There are other places where that's reversed. Clearly, something in those locations interfere with one signal and not the other.

Seems a bit of an overreaction to denounce an entire company on the basis that a friend's reception doesn't work when she's in her home. And given that she has a pool, I have a hard time giving a s**t to begin with. :rolleyes:
 
Gravity said:
BUILT TO RESIST NUCLEAR BOMBS? Say that again and listen to how it sounds, LOL!!! Some schools built in the 50's had a bomb shelter in the basement, including my old high school... but I'm pretty sure the rest of the building (which apparently blocks cell signals) were not built any more solid than your typical office building.
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Okay, I was exaggerating. But the walls are pretty thick and probably have asbestos everywhere.
 
To be honest, I'm kind of glad that Apple isn't on top. It would be good for them, no doubt, but I like having a phone that is NOT in everyone's pocket. EVERYONE in the world has a Blackberry, and you see them everywhere. Someone whips out a Blackberry, it's no big deal. But when you see someone whip out an iPhone, people ususally ask "Is that an iPhone?".

For example, I was in line at PetSmart the other day, and someone got a text and whiped out their Crapberry Bore (storm). The person in front of me asked a person in front of her if it was an iPhone. He said "No, it's a Storm." She replied "oh." with a sort of diappointed tone. Me, (being me) whipped out my iPhone, and stuck it in front of her saying "but THIS IS!!!". She laughed and gawked over it for a few minutes. The guy with the Blackberry was staring at the iPhone as I showed her Need for Speed: Undercover.

Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :D
 
"It's good to see the iPhone doing well but i just don't like how Apple are so iPhone centric, the app store has become a bit of a joke it's too overloaded and the number of app's on people's phones makes it look too cluttered and a bit messy to be honest, anyone been to a Apple store recently it's basically a iPhone store with a few computers shoved to the back."

Dude you read my mind. Last time I was in the store it was all about the the iphone and the ipods. That appears to be all apple really cares about lately :)(sadly looks at the all mobile processor computer lineup).
 
Blue Fox said:
To be honest, I'm kind of glad that Apple isn't on top. It would be good for them, no doubt, but I like having a phone that is NOT in everyone's pocket. EVERYONE in the world has a Blackberry, and you see them everywhere. Someone whips out a Blackberry, it's no big deal. But when you see someone whip out an iPhone, people ususally ask "Is that an iPhone?".

For example, I was in line at PetSmart the other day, and someone got a text and whiped out their Crapberry Bore (storm). The person in front of me asked a person in front of her if it was an iPhone. He said "No, it's a Storm." She replied "oh." with a sort of diappointed tone. Me, (being me) whipped out my iPhone, and stuck it in front of her saying "but THIS IS!!!". She laughed and gawked over it for a few minutes. The guy with the Blackberry was staring at the iPhone as I showed her Need for Speed: Undercover.

Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :D
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This story cracks me up. Apple can charge whatever they want for their devices and people will buy them. You can never account for the cool factor people need to have. People may argue they don't care about it but this story sums up why people are willing to sacrifice function for form when it comes to apple. The girl talked to him!!!
 
Kar98 said:
Palm was making smart phones when Apple was still selling pizza boxes.
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So true, and they don't even show on the chart today.

The Palm company is a good example of a company that came out with a great initial product and has been hoping for lightning to strike again with every new announced product since.

While the Pre could save the company, and I may even buy one, it's still all smoke and mirrors yet. I suspect they may even crawl onto the chart as an asterisk next year.
 
Shiner said:
You can never account for the cool factor people need to have. People may argue they don't care about it but this story sums up why people are willing to sacrifice function for form when it comes to apple. The girl talked to him!!!
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I wouldn't say it was a sacrifice of function, but a much more interest in form.

Apple products are "cool beans" and practically everybody knows it. While the clothing industry feels a need to turn their customers into walking billboards, Apple can say "cool" by just using white wires to the ear buds. Most of the people that have no interest in being cool are those who have given up trying to get there...hence the multitude of peecee users listening to their brown Zunes while trying to bust Ballmer moves. ;)
 
Gravity said:
BUILT TO RESIST NUCLEAR BOMBS? Say that again and listen to how it sounds, LOL!!!
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Thoe old buildings were built pretty solid. When my experimental rocket blew up in the Chemistry lab, it didn't disturb the Home Ec class next door or the principal in his office directly below. Ahh, those days of yore, when if your parents wanted you, you had to be within hollering range.
 
Let's see now, we have the iPhone 3G, with one carrier, selling a little more than half of what RIM is doing with multiple phones on all carriers. I would have to say that Apple is doing pretty good with the way they are doing things so far.
 
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