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Originally Posted by stustaff
No, no I didnt. and by the way I much prefer the choice of 100 apps on iphone to the 1 app on android...
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If 98 of them turn out to be crap then it will take you a fair old time to whittle your way down to the increased choice though.
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Yet the iphone process took 5% out of the DS games sales in less than one year and continues to do so! the apple system over the last year increased their share of the handheld games market by 14% Nintendo's process reduced their share by 5%
Which is the better process? the only reason the DS has 70% is because of the number of years it has been around! Apples process is rapidly closing that gap.
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The main loser due to the iphone was the psp rather than the ds, but the reason that it has managed to establish a share of that market is the pricing model you saw with the iphone apps, $1-2 is nothing much even if you only play a game for an hour then delete it, whereas ds games at $30 or so are less of an impulse purchase.
Also, you should remember that it is a lot easier for companies to gain marketshare when they first arrive, extrapolating that initial jump into the longterm situation is fairly idiotic.
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Smartphone market Apple has 50% thats pretty significant
Highlights from the February 2010 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report include:
· iPhone OS increased its share of smartphone requests from 33 percent in February 2009 to 50 percent in February 2010.
· Symbian's share of smartphone requests fell from 43 percent in February 2009 to 18 percent in February 2010.
· Android increased its share from two percent in February 2009 to 24 percent in February 2010.
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Look at what is being reported before spouting idiotic figures, these merely relate to that admob stuff that is inherently biased towards iphone and android since those are the platforms that also embed its ads in apps.
Globally the latest smartphone marketshare based on actual sales is as follows:
symbian 46.9% (-5.5)
rim 19.9% (+3.3)
apple 14.4% (+6.2)
windows mobile 8.7% (-3.1)
linux 4.7% (-2.9)
android 3.9% (+3.4)
palm 0.7%
other 0.6% (-2.3)
In the american market you have rim just under 50%, apple about 23% and windows mobile and android around 10%.