“With the shipments, Apple grabbed a 15.4 percent share of the market during the period, while RIM finished well behind with a 12.3 percent share,” Mello reports. “Top dog in the kennel, though, remains Nokia with 26.5 percent of the worldwide market.”
MacDailyNews Note: Last November, Apple passed Nokia to become world’s most profitable handset vendor. Suffice to say, TDINO* isn’t making it up on volume.
• To understand market share vs. profits, look no further than Nokia vs. Apple – November 11, 2009
• How Apple passed Nokia to become the world’s most profitable handset vendor – November 11, 2009
• Strategy Analytics: Apple passes Nokia to become world’s most profitable handset vendor – November 10, 2009
Mello continues, “A major factor contributing to RIM’s slipping numbers is its ‘limited presence in the high-growth touchscreen segment,’ according to Strategy Analytics… The gloomy news for RIM won’t be abating soon, either, according to The Economic Times. The company isn’t making any inroads into the consumer market… To make matters worse, RIM’s bread-and-butter buyers–corporations–are starting to slide into the Apple fold.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s only going to get worse for RIM.
*Top Dog In Name Only
Since we’re talking “real” quarters and not fiscal quarters, these figures include the September shipments RIM was complaining about Jobs’ comparison on Tuesday.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/27126/
Incidentally, why the discrepancy in Apple’s reported numbers? It’s 15.4 M in this article, Jobs said they shipped 14.1 M… yet both are for the quarter ending 30 September??
Since we’re talking “real” quarters and not fiscal quarters, these figures include the September shipments RIM was complaining about Jobs’ comparison on Tuesday.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/27126/
Incidentally, why the discrepancy in Apple’s reported numbers? It’s 15.4 M in this article, Jobs said they shipped 14.1 M… yet both are for the quarter ending 30 September??
MacDailyNews Take: It’s only going to get worse for RIM. [, Nokia, Google, Motorola, HTC, Samsung, …]
MacDailyNews Take: It’s only going to get worse for RIM. [, Nokia, Google, Motorola, HTC, Samsung, …]
What’s with those numbers? The units sold just happens to be the same as per cent of of market? Is the size of the market exactly $100 million. Doubt it. Something got lost in translation
What’s with those numbers? The units sold just happens to be the same as per cent of of market? Is the size of the market exactly $100 million. Doubt it. Something got lost in translation
@mossman: to answer your question:
1) Apple’s financial quarter ended by 25th September, not by 30th;
2) Apple counts its wholesale shipments for sales, which are not done via Apple.com site or Apple retail stores. The researches analyse actual buys by end-users, not wholesale buys by dealers and distributors. There could be some significant difference because of that.
@mossman: to answer your question:
1) Apple’s financial quarter ended by 25th September, not by 30th;
2) Apple counts its wholesale shipments for sales, which are not done via Apple.com site or Apple retail stores. The researches analyse actual buys by end-users, not wholesale buys by dealers and distributors. There could be some significant difference because of that.
Nokia makes smartphones? If they do, iPhone and Android are super smartphones They r not comparable because the lack of ecosystem on Nokia.
Nokia makes smartphones? If they do, iPhone and Android are super smartphones They r not comparable because the lack of ecosystem on Nokia.
The only thing right with that PC World story is th headline. The figures and the chart are all bollocks!
The only thing right with that PC World story is th headline. The figures and the chart are all bollocks!
@Wha?,
Exactly my thinking. Nokia makes smartphones?
When is the industry going to stop counting Nokia phones as smartphones. They are nothing of the sort.
@Wha?,
Exactly my thinking. Nokia makes smartphones?
When is the industry going to stop counting Nokia phones as smartphones. They are nothing of the sort.
I hate to be pissy about it, but it is Google I want to see crushed by Apple in all things they decided to compete in with Apple. Even more than Microsoft. Is that wrong? If they were a different company I would probably not feel this way. But they seem to be headed by a slimy backstabbing dirtbag. Telling the world how free and open everything they do is…what a joke.
It was a mistake for Apple to trust Google with the keys to the chicken house and probably won’t be doing anything like that again. Partners will screw you faster than enemies will everytime.
I hate to be pissy about it, but it is Google I want to see crushed by Apple in all things they decided to compete in with Apple. Even more than Microsoft. Is that wrong? If they were a different company I would probably not feel this way. But they seem to be headed by a slimy backstabbing dirtbag. Telling the world how free and open everything they do is…what a joke.
It was a mistake for Apple to trust Google with the keys to the chicken house and probably won’t be doing anything like that again. Partners will screw you faster than enemies will everytime.
The lesson I think we can all take from this is RIM should have licensed Windows Mobile when they had the chance. Pretty soon most phones will be using some variant of Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7. Android and MAC’s misguided I-Phone will be tiny niche players. Again.
You MAC fangirls can gloat all you want about your little Android wannabe phones, but burp and fart apps don’t play in the enterprise. We all know the elephant in the room is Windows Phone 7 and it’s super great Exchange Server intergration. And when you want to let your hair down you can use the Zune player on one. Buh bye MAC.
Your potential. Our passion.™
The lesson I think we can all take from this is RIM should have licensed Windows Mobile when they had the chance. Pretty soon most phones will be using some variant of Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7. Android and MAC’s misguided I-Phone will be tiny niche players. Again.
You MAC fangirls can gloat all you want about your little Android wannabe phones, but burp and fart apps don’t play in the enterprise. We all know the elephant in the room is Windows Phone 7 and it’s super great Exchange Server intergration. And when you want to let your hair down you can use the Zune player on one. Buh bye MAC.
Your potential. Our passion.™
— Ah Zuney… we missed you so.
Let the “sarcasm challenged” miss the boat and lay into him in 3, 2, 1…
— Ah Zuney… we missed you so.
Let the “sarcasm challenged” miss the boat and lay into him in 3, 2, 1…
There is only ONE way to solve this RIMM. It is time for the “BUY 1 GET 4 (or as many as you can carry) DEAL”.
Flood the market with FREE Blackberry phones to keep those numbers up till you have to close the doors. Maybe Microsoft will buy you out. HP bought Palm.
There is only ONE way to solve this RIMM. It is time for the “BUY 1 GET 4 (or as many as you can carry) DEAL”.
Flood the market with FREE Blackberry phones to keep those numbers up till you have to close the doors. Maybe Microsoft will buy you out. HP bought Palm.
Oh nooooooo. Quick, get the “BUY ONE GET 4 POS” program running now!!! lol
Oh nooooooo. Quick, get the “BUY ONE GET 4 POS” program running now!!! lol
I would like to see Android in that chart. Is it because they are behind the rest in numbers? Or does the stats only show the manufacture not the OS. If total Android numbers out preform RIM then they are in even worse shape. WP7 will be bad for RIM too. MS has the business clout to at least get RIM’s market to look at them. Either way RIM is in a world of hurt.