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Originally Posted by djgreedo
The Android platform has actually caught up with the iPhone in terms of sales now, and it is apparent that Android still has a lot of growth in it, whereas the iPhone has already started to decline (e.g. the geeks have now abandoned the iPhone for the more open platforms, and once Windows Mobile 7 comes out Windows will probably regain a few % of the market and overtake the iPhone).
Unless Apple open up their platform (not likely), the iPhone will have a sharp decline (and, quite frankly, if you look at the figures the iPhone is nowhere near as popular as you would think from all the attention and press it gets).
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Considering I work for another smartphone maker, I would be happy to see the above statement being true, but it simply isn't the case, the iphone's marketshare increased by more than android last quarter despite already having a much larger part of the market as it was.
If you are talking globally then rim, apple and android are mostly eating into symbian's marketshare and if you are talking north america then the same three are mostly gaining due to loss of marketshare of palm, winmo and anyone else.