Android taking over?
Three years ago Volker published a market share analysis of the smart phone market originally found at Gigaom. The world looked good for Symbian:
Fast forward to now. The US market looks very different now:
![Smartphone traffic share in the US](https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/articleimage/Phil%20Nickinson/2010/04/thumb_550_AdMob%20-%20US%20OS%20traffic%20March.PNG)
as reported by Android Central. The international figures cite 46% Apple, 25% Android and 21% Symbian (I wonder how the figures would look like for the world excluding the US). For example in India the distribution is 93% Symbian and 4% Apple. You can download the whole report (the usual caveats for statistics apply). Windows mobile seems all but to disappear. I wonder what will happen to all the mobile processing devices (like Symbol) that formed the backbone of corporate mobility strategies. Also you need to be clear: a RIM user is much less likely to use her device to surf (due to the comparable pathetic browser) to ad-infested web sites, so both RIM and Nokia might be under represented. At least Nokia tries to
![Nokia N8 Smartphone](https://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokia-n8-thumb.jpg?w=196&h=140)
fight back. We live in interesting times.
![2007 market shares of mobile phones](https://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/smartphonemarketshare.gif?w=610)
Fast forward to now. The US market looks very different now:
as reported by Android Central. The international figures cite 46% Apple, 25% Android and 21% Symbian (I wonder how the figures would look like for the world excluding the US). For example in India the distribution is 93% Symbian and 4% Apple. You can download the whole report (the usual caveats for statistics apply). Windows mobile seems all but to disappear. I wonder what will happen to all the mobile processing devices (like Symbol) that formed the backbone of corporate mobility strategies. Also you need to be clear: a RIM user is much less likely to use her device to surf (due to the comparable pathetic browser) to ad-infested web sites, so both RIM and Nokia might be under represented. At least Nokia tries to
![Nokia N8 Smartphone](https://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nokia-n8-thumb.jpg?w=196&h=140)
fight back. We live in interesting times.
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 29 April 2010 | Comments (0) | categories: Technology