This move kind of puts into perspective their recent comments about how the mobile phone industry works differently from the open source world. Doesn't look like they have much confidence that that will be true for much longer.
This move kind of puts into perspective their recent comments about how the mobile phone industry works differently from the open source world. Doesn't look like they have much confidence that that will be true for much longer.
That's a bit silly. As of Q4 2007 Nokia has 52.9% of market share for smartphones, part of the 65% for Symbian. RIM has 11.4% and Apple has 6.5% (impressive for only a year after launch). See http://www.canalys.com/pr/2008/r2008021.htm
The percentages mentioned on Techcrunch and all the other blogs mention selling figures per quarter. e.g. 35,522,360 smartphones sold in Q4 and 2,320,840 iPhones that means only 6,5% in this quarter and not in the whole market. I think it was 26% in Q1 2008 and 19% in Q2 2008 but as you see their market share is still only approximately 2% of all smartphones.