Comments on: iOS the Only Holdout Against Android Onslaught

By: joshdean

joshdean — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:00:20 +0000

From what I’ve heard, Apple still can’t manufacture iPhones quickly enough to meet demand. How is one company’s rapidly growing product supposed to keep pace with a sector which just happens to be expanding even more quickly than they are?

“We know from company statements that Apple faces more demand than it can supply. That makes things easier for the amateur because she can just figure out production. In other words, the logical way to forecast Apple’s iPhone sales is to guess how many they can make.”(Horace Dediu, Asymco)
http://www.asymco.com/2011/03/28/predicting-iphone-sales-for-dummies/

By: Rumbilit

Rumbilit — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:51:58 +0000

how is iPhone marketshare “holding out”? what the chart doesnt show is iPhone market share skyrocketing the couple years before that, while it has flatlined for the last year. just the fact they havent grown in a market that 2yrs ago looked like they were going to completely dominate is troubling.

I wonder if Jobs hates the Google boys as much as Gates? blowing 2 leads to the competition he feels is inferior has to really be maddening. the only thing left now is tablets but it looks like Android will be taking that market shortly as well.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:55:20 +0000

These stats seem to be % of all smartphones. Even if apple’s % is constant, the NUMBER of iPhones is increasing as people replace older phones with smartphones.

By: Cold Water

Cold Water — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:40:06 +0000

iOS market share is flat because “everybody” has an iPhone. Without new form factors, they’re common and boring, like a less-sucky BlackBerry. If you’ve used one BlackBerry or iPhone, you’ve pretty much used them all. From year to year, iPhones are pretty much the same, except they a hardware feature for more speed (3G/processor), probably another for some overdue feature like GPS/camera flash/faux-multitasking, and just maybe a design refresh.

Meanwhile, an interesting new Android phone drops every other week. Between the folks who won’t care because it’s not Apple, and the many more who were never in the smartphone market, there’s a meaty middle that’s interested in fancy new displays, keyboards, blinkenlights, bells, and whistles.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:36:09 +0000

Who cares outside of Apple, Google and their fanbois? If this blog were software, stories like this would be bloatware.

Non-corporate people that have to hear and react to this stuff need to get a life.