IDC released their worldwide stats on smartphone marketshare last
Friday. True that Apple is still 3rd, but the notable bit is growth. RIM
and Nokia each grew by 45 and 57 percent respectivly but Apple grew by
131%. Apple's volume was only a bit behind RIM (8.8M v. 10.6M) so RIM
has to be hearing footsteps running after them, and Apple's growth shows
no signs of slowing. They just keep coming our with stuff people want
and fixing up weak spots (IDE, Multitasking, AppStore, iBook etc). If I
were Nokia I'd start drawing a defensive line and calling in favors
while their sales ratios are two to one compared to Apple. This time
last year it was more that three to one and it's not an unreasonable bet
that next year it will be one to one.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Worldwide-Converged-Mobile-bw-3286458415.html?x=0
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/apple-iphone-smartphone-market-share-surges-rim-slips/34181
CB
Bryan Smart wrote:
I know we love our iPhones here, but to act like Nokia is terrified and on the
ropes is silly. Do you know that 2 out of every 5 smartphones in the world are
Nokias. Their 40% market share is mamoth when compared to Apple's 17%.
BlackBerries stil out-sell iPhones. It's great that Apple sold nearly 9,000,000
iPhones last quarter, but, in the same time, Nokia sold 21,000,000.
As big as the iPhone is here in the US, I think that a lot of people forget
just how popular Nokia is nearly everywhere else in the world.
These patent battles happen all of the time. Qualcom was the big focus a few
years ago. Nokia and Apple will maneuver for a while, they'll come to some
agreement that I won't sue you for this patent if you don't sue me for that
one, and then they'll both try to take a swing at RIM.
Bryan
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and that is the point. Nokia's suffering so what do they do, hit the company
that potentially has the most money.
On 9 May 2010, at 11:49, Kaare Dehard wrote:
sounds to me like they are timing this right, results are down for Nokia right
now and they're probably trying to do this to cut some losses witha fat
lisencing contract.
On 2010-05-08, at 11:20 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
agreed. I do wonder what will come out of it though? I hoep nokia
looses big time On May 8, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
Yet another boring lawsuit. I really think this type of thing is
just to see who can score browny points against another company;
it's not really in the interest of consumers, despite what nokia will tell you.
On 08/05/2010, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: NOKIA - Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of
Nokia patents
NOKIA
Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of Nokia patents
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced that it has today filed a
complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in the
Western District of Wisconsin, alleging that Apple iPhone and iPad
3G products infringe five important Nokia patents.
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and data transmission, using positioning data in applications and
innovations in antenna configurations that improve performance and
save space, allowing smaller and more compact devices. These
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