Ed, Mobile 'phones suffer far more from feature differentiation than other devices and with many manufacturers using the same OSes revealing exact sales stats could put them at a competitive disadvantage.
Take, for example, HTC, if they said that the Windows Mobile handset was outselling their Android one by 3 to 1 other mobile manufacturers would most likely back off Android handset development and increase work on Windows Mobile because that's what's selling. The other products you mention have either little in the way of major value add features (such as TVs and PCs) or are only be produced by one manufacturer (e.g. iPhone, games consoles, video games), so there is little point in, say Sony hiding it's sales figures for 32" LCD TVs because their competitors already have sales stats covering most of the range of sizes Sony offers showing which sizes are selling well, or little point in Apple hiding iPhone sales because no-one else can sell a phone with Mac OS iPhone on it. The closest thing to it is the video games industry which has ended up with a mass of First person shooters, Racing games, and Sports tie-ins because that's what sells, and original games like WiiFit and Little big planet are few and far between. Al. Ed wrote: > Mark, > > I'm not sure that I understand this question in the context of global > product markets. You can find the sales figures of TVs, computers, > video games, gaming platforms, and nearly every other popular > electronic device you can name (not to mention non-electronic goods > like cars, airplanes, and lots of other stuff). My confusion is why > the cell phone market is blanketed in secrecy when pretty much every > other market has wide disclosure for sales figures as a basis for > stock value. Of course, I notice that Apple is pretty open about > iPhone sales, so maybe that is a clue. > > I'm not interested in arguing, I'm just sincerely baffled by this. > > --Ed > > On Mar 4, 10:46 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ed wrote: >> >>> I'm baffled that sales figures are so hard to find in general. I would >>> love to see the sales trends of G1 phones overall, in addition to per >>> country breakdowns. >>> >> Why would HTC want to give out this information? >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com >> _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! >> > > > -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
