Comments on: Nobody has any clue what smartphone market share will be in 2016

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:38:42 +0000

Five years ago, who would have thought that Apple’s as-yet-unreleased iPhone would upend the mobile phone industry, and destroy the market share of the industry leaders RIM and Nokia.

By: ken1w

ken1w — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 09:45:13 +0000

“Projections” have to be based on reality, not fantasy. Based on actual trends, my prediction is that the Windows Phone platform will be extinct by 2016.

(The Windows (PC) platform will still be alive, but only because some users and businesses will still be using Windows XP.)

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:34:10 +0000

…it’s impossible to have an informed opinion about how they’ll fare.

IOW:
Half-assed predictive ANALyst blether, such as that from brain dead IDC, is worthless shite. Thank you for verifying what we here at MDN already knew, Mr. McCracken.

By: FTB

FTB — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:26:19 +0000

Lmfao!!

Ok my brother in law works for GE, A division of it anyway..

Last year they decided to replace the blackberries with iPhones (as a choice) when the employees are due for a new phone, contract up or in need of replacement etc.
He told me that as soon as that was announced.. People started having “issues” all of a sudden with their blackberries…
That’s one of the reasons he had to wait for months to get his iPhone, he didn’t break his blackberry even though he wanted too.. He waited until his time was up to request the iPhone. Which worked in his favor really.. He got the 4S instead of the 4.

Same thing happened when they started handing out iPads. They mentioned they would start sending them to employees that wanted one.. (they needed to prove a use for it though) they got hammered for requests lol.

Nah, iOS stuff has no place in business at all.

He said he’d get the iPad but it would never replace his laptop… He’s had it two weeks now, it already has.
Only reason he uses it, printing stuff. No AirPlay printing in his office, yet anyway.

By: twimoon1

twimoon1 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:09:47 +0000

I remember that jackass. That twit still employed? If so, and if it’s still in the IT industry, he’s a lucky man. However I would advise he bone up on how to run a hot dog stand, since his days in the IT field are numbered.

By: Ardip

Ardip — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:33:39 +0000

Shows how these guys are total idiots and don’t have a clue

By: jaundiced

jaundiced — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:24:55 +0000

This should have been a reply to Cubert’s link.

By: jaundiced

jaundiced — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:22:41 +0000

I really loved the comments from “…IT Expert” at 12:59 PM. What an idiot.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:14:33 +0000

The hilarious thing (or sad, depending on your point of view) is that they think RIM will still be around in 2016.

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:47:10 +0000

Asinine at the time, an embarrassment to all life forms today.

By: M

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:45:04 +0000

They have been wrong ever since the iPhone was introduced. A stagnant market is easy to “forcast”… People also said Andoid tablets would be huge by now..and RIM wasn’t going anywhere..then there is the whole “people like their keyboards” thing. I wish I could get paid to be wrong year after year…

By: Cubert

Cubert — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:26:48 +0000

I tried to find an IDC article on MDN from 5 years ago that predicted the iPhone share in 2012 but couldn’t. In place of that I found this gem:

http://macdailynews.com/2007/06/20/gartner_idc_warn_businesses_must_avoid_apple_iphone/

Basically, IDC is run by jackasses.