Finally a graph with numbers on it

[andrewducker]

I've been quite fed up with marketshare reports that only talk about growth, and don't say how many actual users there are out there. With a rapidly growing market knowing that a company's market share dropped doesn't actually tell me whether they sold less phones.

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[matgb]

That is an interesting grah, and yes, makes it a lot clearer.

Nokia's lost half a million users over a year, and both those that beat them were virtually nowhere last year in comparison.

But OTOH it indicates Symbian may be around for awhile as a legacy platform, my contract started May for two years, etc.

So the way many companies aren't even bothering to put out a basic Symbian compatible app is incredibly annoying--Google+ being worst offender on that, but at least I kinow those numbers are vastly different in the US where Symbian never broke in in the first place.

This time next year, where will WebOS be do we think? Released this month, will take a bit to take off.

[andrewducker]

That depends. If people are buying phones by OS then they'll need an actual good reason to go for WebOS once they're bought into the Android ecosystem.

If they're just buying phones because they look shiny then WebOS has a chance if they can look shinier than the other phones at the same price.

But Android is successfully grabbing the bottom end and the top end, and anything else is going to have to be actively better than it is to successfully enter the market.

I do wish that more people had written apps for Nokia. Sadly, their dev tools seem to have been one of their biggest downfalls. The process for getting an app written and into the market seems to have put off an awful lot of developers.