Microsoft has a central market place for Windows Mobile applications in the making. It is the latest (and maybe the last) of the big smartphone platform makers to come forth with such a model. And – with a probably already somewhat reflexive jab to its Cupertino nemesis (yes, Mr Gates’ children are not allowed iPods), it vowed to be more open to outside software developers.
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World market leader Nokia had a bruising 2008, at least in the smartphone field. According to a study, the Finns’ market share in this segment dropped by 10% to a – well – still fairly respectable 40.8% in Q4/2008 (as compared to 50.9% a for the quarter in the previous year). Painful!
Worldwide: Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor
(Thousands of Units)
Company | 4Q08 Sales | Market Share4Q08 (%) | 4Q07 Sales | Market Share4Q07 (%) | 4Q07-4Q08 Growth (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nokia | 15,561.7 | 40.8% | 18,703.3 | 50.9% | -16.8% |
RIM | 7,442.6 | 19.5% | 4,024.7 | 10.9% | 84.9% |
Apple | 4,079.4 | 10.7% | 1,928.3 | 5.2% | 111.6% |
HTC | 1,631.7 | 4.3% | 1,361.1 | 3.7% | 19.9% |
Samsung | 1,598.2 | 4.2% | 671.5 | 1.8% | 138.0% |
Others | 7,829.7 | 20.5% | 10,077.3 | 27.4% | -22.3% |
Total | 38,143.3 | 100% | 36,766.1 | 100% | 3.7% |
Worldwide: Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor, 2008
Company | 2008 Sales | Market Share 2008 | 2007 Sales | Market Share 2007 | Growth 2007-2008 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nokia | 60,920.5 | 43.7% | 60,465.0 | 49.4% | 0.8% |
RIM | 23,149.0 | 16.6% | 11,767.7 | 9.6% | 96.7% |
Apple | 11,417.5 | 8.2% | 3,302.6 | 2.7% | 245.7% |
HTC | 5,895.4 | 4.2% | 3,718.5 | 3.0% | 58.5% |
Sharp | 5,234.2 | 3.8% | 6,885.3 | 5.6% | -24.0% |
Others | 32,671.4 | 23.5% | 36,176.6 | 29.6% | -9.7% |
Total | 139,287.9 | 100% | 122,315.6 | 100% | 13.9% |
Worldwide: Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System, 4Q08
Company | 4Q08 Sales | Market Share 4Q08 | 4Q07 Sales | Market Share 4Q07 | Growth 4Q07-4Q08 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Symbian | 17,949.1 | 47.1% | 22,902.5 | 62.3% | -21.6% |
RIM | 7,442.6 | 19.5% | 4,024.7 | 10.9% | 84.9% |
Windows Mobile | 4,713.9 | 12.4% | 4,374.4 | 11.9% | 7.8% |
Mac OS X | 4,079.4 | 10.7% | 1,928.3 | 5.2% | 111.6% |
Linux | 3,194.9 | 8.4% | 2,675.9 | 7.3% | 19.4% |
Palm OS | 326.5 | 0.9% | 449.1 | 1.2% | -27.3% |
Other OSs | 436.9 | 1.1% | 411.3 | 1.1% | 6.2% |
Total | 38,143.3 | 100% | 36,766.1 | 100% | 3.7% |
Note: The “Other OSs” category includes sales of Sharp Sidekick devices based on the Danger platform.
Worldwide: Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System, 2008
Company | 2008 Sales | Market Share 2008 | 2007 Sales | Market Share 2007 | Growth 2007-2008 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Symbian | 72,933.5 | 52.4% | 77,684.0 | 63.5% | -6.1% |
RIM | 23,149.0 | 16.6% | 11,767.7 | 9.6% | 96.7% |
Windows Mobile | 16,498.1 | 11.8% | 14,698.0 | 12.0% | 12.2% |
Mac OS X | 11,417.5 | 8.2% | 3,302.6 | 2.7% | 245.7% |
Linux | 11,262.9 | 8.1% | 11,756.7 | 9.6% | -4.2% |
Palm OS | 2,507.2 | 1.8% | 1,762.7 | 1.4% | 42.2% |
Other OSs | 1,519.7 | 1.1% | 1,344.0 | 1.1% | 13.1% |
Total | 139,287.9 | 100% | 122,315.6 | 100% | 13.9% |
Note: The “Other OSs” category includes sales of Sharp Sidekick devices based on the Danger platform.
Another week, another Carnival of the Mobilists. This week’s edition is being hosted by Mark van’t Hooft at Ubiquitous Thoughts and brings you all the goodies from the mobile world in the past week (including my post on the recession-bucking smartphone sales). So go over there and get wiser…
Everyone who is in London next week Monday and Tuesday should be checking in for the Social Networking World Forum and the Mobile Social Networking Forum, which are held concurrently at Olympia in London. Everyone from MySpace, Bebo, Sulake/Habbo Hotel via LinkedIn and Yahoo! all the way to Coca Cola, MTV and British Airways will be there, so should be interesting!
Here’s the list of the 10 best-selling phones (judged by accessory sales) as compiled by Krusell, our Swedish holster-maker friends. I will not comment further on the sense or nonsense of this information but reference what I said previously about it.
2. (2) HTC Touch HD
3. (5) Nokia 6300
4. (3) Nokia E51
5. (4) Blackberry Storm
6. (8) Nokia E71
7. (6) Nokia 3109
8. (-) Nokia 5800
9. (7) Sony Ericsson X1 Xperia
10. (-) Nokia 3120
Blackberry Maker RIM launched a holding site ahead of the launch of its Blackberry App World (the equivalent to Apple’s AppStore), and it had a little surprise in hand: billing appears to be handled via PayPal (the fine print does not need translation: “to be able to purchase applications from BlackBerry App World, a PayPal Account is required”).
Industry body MEF had put out its top 10 predictions for the year a few weeks ago (inexplicably missed by me; well it was somewhere around Mobile World Congress, so probably at least excusable), which they gathered from their members and deep discussions around this. They believe that 2009 – recession and all – will be the year in which mobile entertainment (if you count everything in, apparently a $25bn industry) will start to deliver returns.
- The ‘iPhone effect’ -Mobile applications have emerged as a new content category and the mobile internet will finally come of age
- Greater value and transparency for consumers will help sustain demand in 2009
- Some delay in the proliferation of mobile advertising
- Telcos begin to acts as enablers for the Entertainment industry with services such as billing, authentication and zero tariff data
- The emerging dominance of services that operate at a multi-platform level
- The rise of ring back tones
- Social networking becomes an important driver of mobile entertainment consumption
- 2009 will be the year that mobile video really takes off
- Emerging economies will become an increasingly important driver for mobile entertainment worldwide
- A proliferation of touch screen devices drives discoverability and content usage