Marketshare 2014 : Android = 75 % & WP7 = 5%

If in 2011 - Android takes almost 50% share of worldwide smart phone market , then in  2014 Android can have :
 - 50 % share of worldwide tablet market
 - 75 % share of smart phone market !
 ... only if Google pays minor damages to Oracle in the Java lawsuit. 

Before Windows 8 will appear , Android will be able to run on common PC desktops and laptops . 

Before Windows 10 , Android ChromeOS (and Linux) can have 10 percent of desktop market share ... 

We must consider the posibility that facebook can be replaced by Google+ ...

comScore Reports June 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

Smartphone Platform Market Share

78.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in June 2011, up 8 percent from the preceding three month period. Google Android ranked as the top smartphone platform with 40.1 percent market share, up 5.4 percentage points. Apple strengthened its #2 position with 26.6 percent of the smartphone market, up 1.1 percentage points from the prior reporting period. RIM ranked third with 23.4 percent share, followed by Microsoft (5.8 percent) and Symbian (2.0 percent).

Top Smartphone Platforms 3 Month Avg. Ending Jun. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Mar. 2011 Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Ages 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens
	Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
	Mar-11	Jun-11	Point Change
Total Smartphone Subscribers	100.0%	100.0%	N/A
Google	34.7%	40.1%	5.4
Apple	25.5%	26.6%	1.1
RIM	27.1%	23.4%	-3.7
Microsoft	7.5%	5.8%	-1.7
Symbian	2.3%	2.0%	-0.3

Microsoft's share of the smartphone market has fallen 38% (from 8% to 5.8%) since the Windows Phone 7 launch.


The question is for how much longer handset makers and carriers will consider it worth supporting Windows Phone 7. Microsoft's mobile market share has been declining for the past six months. At that pace, its overall share may be be hovering around just 4% by the end of the year 2011.

Android leads as smartphone sales jump worldwide

Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 2Q11 (Thousands of Units)

Operating System	2Q11  Units	2Q11 Market Share (%)	2Q10  Units	2Q10 Market Share (%)
Android	46,775.9	43.4	10,652.7	17.2
Symbian	23,853.2	22.1	25,386.8	40.9
iOS	19,628.8	18.2	8,743.0	14.1
Research In Motion	12,652.3	11.7	11,628.8	18.7
Bada	2,055.8	1.9	577.0	0.9
Microsoft	1,723.8	1.6	3,058.8	4.9
Others	1,050.6	1.0	2,010.9	3.2
Total	107,740.4	100.0	62,058.1	100.0

Source: Gartner (August 2011)

Smartphone TOP Brands ; Developers ! Developers ! Developers !

RIM Blackberry and Nokia seems to slowly fade away ...

Ecosystems include not only the hardware and software of the device,
but developers, applications, ecommerce, advertising, search , etc ...

ANDROID, APPLE and HP ?
No more  battle of devices ? War of ecosystems ? WP7-Nokia will ever be on Top10  ?

 Windows Phone 7 ecosystem - eventually will go the way of the Kin & Zune !

Why ? Developers ! Developers ! Developers !
1. because Microsoft has lost already a big part of the ECOSYSTEM :          

the Windows Mobile developers who invested a lot of time in C#  

2. because Nokia has lost another big part of the ECOSYSTEM :         
the Symbian Qt & Java Developers !
3. Microsoft might put WP7 on Blackberry and the ECOSYSTEM is still lost ... 

Top 10 smartphones of 2011

01: Samsung Galaxy S II
02: Motorola Droid Bionic
03: T-Mobile LG G2X
04: Apple iPhone 4
05: HTC EVO 3D
06: HTC ThunderBolt
07: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
08: Google Nexus S
09: HP Pre 3
10: Dell Venue Pro

Top 10 smartphones of 2010

01: Sprint HTC EVO
02: Apple iPhone 3
03: Nokia N8
04: HTC Droid Incredible
05: Google Nexus One
06: Palm Pre Plus
07: T-Mobile myTouch 3G
08: RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700
09: T-Mobile HTC HD2
10: Motorola Droid

 

WP7 - WTF

WP7 : Still no update

WP7 is not Android : there are people still waiting on froyo !
 ... and Honeycomb isn’t even in 1% of devices ...
But on Android one can root the phone and get the latest and greatest version of Android .

When Microsoft dropped Windows Mobile they dropped the ball 
with POST-PC ERA !

One might ask himself :
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If PC ERA is over,  how will the enterprise and businesses do their work?
Only by tablets and smartphones?  
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 - Well it's a way of speaking , as the time goes by ,  people will be more
and more comfortable with the tablet and smartphone software ; 
HP is the first one that will have the same software (WebOS) in smartphones, tablets,
laptops, desktops and even printers !

In the "Classified - For official use only" secrecy level - only Android
seems to be a contender :

Merkel-Phone: Bekommt die Kanzlerin ein Android-Handy?

Merkel-phone: the Chancellor gets an Android phone?

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Has Microsoft dropped the ball with Windows Phone 7?
The Post-PC Era Is Already Here
La fragmentation Android n’inquiète pas Motorola
Windows Phone 7 semble décoller en Europe

Microsoft is bricking their customer's WP7 phones ; Businesses can't afford the amateurish, careless, and unremediable bricking of their phones. Any business that buys Windows Phone 7 is committing suicide. Microsoft and Windows Phone 7 should not be associated with the enterprise in any way at all.

 

Windows Phone 7 update FAIL: Restoration error C101002E 81080080

 ... the comedy of errors ...

Nokia , Intel , Microsoft , Qt , MeeGo , WP7 , Webkit & Digia

Digia acquire Qt commercial licensing business from Nokia
Digia working to grow the Qt community
Nokia Sells Open Source Qt

It seems that Nokia does not want to develop anymore the Qt platform ... 
My question is why  Intel don't just buy Qt ?
One reason might be that Microsoft wants Nokia with Qt !
For Microsoft is not enough just Mono ...
They want another trojan horse into open - source ?

"These professional services are not core business activities for Nokia, so since the introduction of the LGPL license for Qt in 2009 we have been actively working to grow the number of companies providing Qt services," explains Nokia's Sebastian Nystrom, head of MeeGo, Qt, and Webkit, "In 2010 we began the search for a company we could work with to serve the commercial licensees in the Qt community."

Nokia : une nouvelle tête pour relancer MeeGo

 ... As an experimental OS at Nokia, MeeGo can remain on stand-by and who wants to
root the windows phone to be able to install the linux based MeeGo ...
  And who knows, if Microsoft kills WP7 , nokia can return to Intel ... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bad news for Microsoft -- Nokia transition to Windows Phone 7 will take two years

 ... but that may be too late for WP7 


Nokia can't migrate its entire product line to WP7 . The press release announcing the deal also contained news of a new operating structure within Nokia. One division would concentrate on "smart phones," while another would continue with "feature phones."
 Nokia do say that their intent is to eventually move their entire user base to smart phones. But let's face it: that is not a realistic goal . Many people in this world either cannot afford, or simply do not want, a "smart phone" . Somebody -- probably Nokia -- will be selling tens of millions of relatively dumb and cheap 'feature phones' . These are going to be so cheap that their price will not bear the cost of a Windows Phone license...

So if Nokia does drop Symbian (to save R&D) they will adopt something else (like Android) for their simple and cheap feature phones

Doomed By The Desire For Control?

There's plenty of talk about how Nokia's embrace of Microsoft's Windows Phone has doomed Nokia. But has Nokia's embrace actually doomed Windows Phone?

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Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers, operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity.
But by creating a special relationship with Microsoft, where Nokia has rights to influence the Windows Phone platform in ways others do not and are unlikely to be able to negotiate, Microsoft has ensured that other phone manufacturers will be cautious about using the same technology rather than a platform like Android where a much more open environment exists. Why would any other manufacturer want to use a platform where they play junior partner to "a broad strategic partnership"?
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