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Dear 3rd place phone platforms: please accelerate your demise

miksovsky.blogs.com

3 pointsdanshapiro6 comments

Is this really the correct ordering of market share? I'm pretty sure Blackberry actually has more market share than either iOS or Android, albeit massively less buzz and consumer interest.

edit: An IDC estimate from a few weeks ago (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qQjngE0rTd8yp1SXLrr4FA?...) gives: Blackberry OS (17.9%), Android (16.3%), Apple iOS (14.7%), Windows Mobile (6.8%)

In the gaming console space, game ISVs resent Nintendo’s steadfast refusal to die. Microsoft and Sony can keep each other honest on their own. So, from a game developer’s perspective, Nintendo’s existence doesn’t improve their life, it only complicates it.

  Wii:      73.97 million units sold
  Xbox 360: 41.7 million units sold
  PS3:      38.1 million units sold

Source: Wikipedia

This guy has an interesting definition of 'third'.

It sounds like he's conflating buzz with unit sales. Hope I never work for him.

With Symbian being #1 and BlackBerry being #2, he wants Android and iOS to die?

It depends how narrowly you define the market segment. For all phones you'd be right. For "full face capacitive touch-screen smart phones/computers" Android and iOS are the two leading contenders, with the places differing depending who you ask.

From his perspective all that matters is a phone that runs a decent browser, or has a decent screen and interface and can run an "app". Hence Android and iOS are the two big gorillas in the space.

My advice to him would be to just make a web application that works in enough mobile browsers and be done with it since it will work on all of the other platforms he's got listed as well as saving him any more work for iOS and Android.

Fail article is fail.

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