Posts tagged: mobile
The Wall Street Journal reports:
BlackBerry users around the world experienced further disruptions in service Wednesday, the third consecutive day of problems that have now spread further into Asia.
Looks like RIM is in a hurry in the race to the bottom. At this rate, I’m not sure if it’ll take until end of 2012 for them to lose all their customer-base at the rate they are haemorrhaging users. Half a million a month of users are switching away from BB; after this incident, what do you think?
Last year, Nokia’s global share of phone sales sank below 30 per cent for the first time since 1999. Its descent is destined to become a business textbook study of how a trusted business built on a simple product can, in a matter of a few short years, lose its way.
The burning question is: how did Nokia manage it?
Tragic train-wreck.
The iPhone’s retail debut was on June 29, 2007 — four years ago today. Its large touch screen isn’t novel anymore, but was revolutionary then.
Ever wondered how “smart phones” looked before the launch of the iPhone? Check out the blog post for a trip down memory lane.
It wasn’t until four months after the post that Verizon officially announced they were getting the iPhone. At it was a full five months later that it actually went on sale. That was roughly one quarter ago, so the data has started to trickle in and take shape. And guess what? It sure looks like the iPhone on a second carrier, Verizon, halted Android’s march.
In April, when NPD data had the iPhone market share push a bit forward while Android saw a small decline, it was perhaps a bit too early to read into it. But a month later, Nielsen data suggested that Android share was indeed flattening, and most credited the 2.2 million iPhones Verizon sold in the two months of its existence on the carrier as the reason.
A few days ago, a report by Needham using IDC data suggested that Android’s market share peaked in March, and was now on the decline as Apple’s share was rising again. This was the first quarterly share decline that Android had ever seen.
Why? It seems obvious, doesn’t it?
Though the article makes good sense, I still found it rather hard to grasp how, by just introducing one phone model to another carrier, is able to keep all others at bay.
Not intuitive but logical and reasonable.
Say, if the iPhones were sold by all carriers in the US and the world, like Android, how would the iOS market share turn out to be?
I’d say, massively number 1.
Canadian Blackberry maker Research In Motion announced sharply lower profits related to product delays an intense competition, pushing it to sack workers while the market attacked the company’s valuation.
Epic. Even Nokia isn’t that dramatic.
Don’t they have fault redundancy on all levels, especially on something so critical that has widespread dependency on.
In order for a specific device to get a license for the apps, it must pass the Android Compatibility Test Suite and meet the Android Compatibility Definition. How Google exactly determines what passes the test is really the core issue in this case — Skyhook claims Google uses the threat of incompatibility to act anti-competitively.
Yay to “openness”.
Finally, some workable band-aid.
This is what I mean when I say that Android doesn’t have a platform roll-out / upgrade strategy. This, I suspect, will be the downfall of Android.
Another review on Mobile Flash Player 10.1 on Android 2.2. Nothing has changed, nothing has improved; mobile Flash is still as bad as ever.
