Comments on: Smartphone Share — Google Grows While RIM Slows, Palm Reverses

By: Ziyad Dadabhoy

Ziyad Dadabhoy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:45:19 +0000

Oh i see. Guess i should have read more closely. Thanks for telling me that.

By: PalmPreBlog.com

PalmPreBlog.com — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:26:27 +0000

Palm only had the Pre and Pixi for Sprint during Q3 and Q4. The trend is likely to change since Verizon now carries the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus.

By: Jasen

Jasen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:04:45 +0000

The lack of Symbians presence on the graph does not imply American ignorance of the platform. It merely shows the most used operating systems within the United States.

By: Roger Cornall

Roger Cornall — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:36:44 +0000

It's about the apps and developer community. This will keep apple and increasingly Android on top for at least the next 18 months. Android will overtake Windows by years end.

By: Ziyad Dadabhoy

Ziyad Dadabhoy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:18:05 +0000

The only thing missing is Symbian whose bar would be everyone else's bars put together. I am frequently shocked on how ignorant American tech people ignore Symbian just because it isn't big in the U.S.A.

By: timjones17

timjones17 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:22:53 +0000

There's a report out by ABI Research that says that the iPhone lost marketshare, down to 16.6 percent of smartphone sales in Q4 - from 18.1 percent in Q3. 8.7 million iPhones were sold, actually less than what Wall Street analysts expected, in Q4, and while that's 18% more than in the quarter before, overall, the smartphone market grew 26% in the same time period.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:15:49 +0000

True, different sources measure in different ways. That's why I look for the trends as opposed to absolute numbers.

"Actually Android is growing faster than all them because they are on many many more devices than just phones." That may be true, but since the report data clearly focuses on smartphones, other devices are out of scope. ;)

By: Paris

Paris — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:37:28 +0000

I don't trust those stats. My research and industry contacts indicate Window Mobile declining much more rapidly while Apple is increasing more. Actually Android is growing faster than all them because they are on many many more devices than just phones.

By: Philip Lovely

Philip Lovely — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:57:29 +0000

It would be interesting to see symbian numbers as well as worldwide it does well. I can appreciate symbian does not do great in the US it has a big following elsewhere.

Phil

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:48:36 +0000

Good question, but comScore doesn't specify. I would guess that it includes both webOS and PalmOS. But if it does, that's not a good situation for Palm. You want your existing customer base to migrate to your own new platform if possible, not somebody else's. The single carrier for webOS during the reporting time definitely didn't help. Let's see how the first quarter of 2010 is with the addition of Verizon. Should be much better.