Comments on: Apple in third place as smartphone shipments soar

Nokia and RIM dominate the worldwide market for smartphones, but Apple's right there in just its first year in the market, and it's doing even better in the U.S.

[Mystigo]

Not Too Far Off

Taking the 4th quarter numbers in isolation:

35 million / 300 million * 0.065 share = 0.76 percent. That's
actually not too far from 1% of new sales.

If Steve meant he wants 1% of new sales going forward, that's
pretty close. If he meant he wants 1% of all smart phones to be
iPhones, or 1% of all mobile phones, or even 1% of all phones
everywhere, well -that might be a bit harder.

[Penguinisto]

Dear Vegaman_Dan, and other MSFT fans:

Please allow me the opportunity to say, without malice:

I told you so. Repeatedly.

Do you believe me now?

/P

[FutureGuy]

did you say...

.."Shipments of Linux-based smartphones were flat in 2007, despite the strong growth in almost every other segment of the market. "

you nailed it man, you were so right. You do understand that "strong growth in almost every other segment of the market" would also include Windows Mobile, right?

[MMC Racing]

So the question is...

Is this based on Apples shipped phones or sold phones? Did anyone find the missing 500,000 yet? :)

[pugscanfly]

Second in US

behind RIM with 27% share. Beating Windows Mobile at 21% on
combined devices.

What was it Ballmer said?

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant
market share. No chance."

[ssmiroldo]

Ballmer...

Yeah... Ballmer's a complete bafoon. Just look at this video on
YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hadxBZWxNrs

[jr999]

WM Still has more share of the OS

This is a bit deceiving, the report show that windows mobile is second behind Symbian in the OS globally (they did not even list apple's % for the year). Again this is an annual report (mostly a 4th Q report) so it does not include anyone who purchased a phone before that.

Once again an apple fan boy tilts the results to make himself happy. That's ok though, it's a cool phone but don't make it sound like no one is buying the other stuff.

[KTLA_knew]

Installed base?

What's the iPhone's total market of the whole installed base of smartphones currently in use? That would be the really interesting number.

[ddoubledmd]

US lags

Just shows how unaware the US is about smart phones if a million or so phones grabs that kind of share.

[Thomas, David]

lmao

kicking and screaming, kicking and screaming ...

[fred dunn]

iPhone = Enterprise Nightmare

Our most secure mobile devices are BlackBerry Handhelds that are connected through our server so that if a device is lost, stolen, misplaced, or whatever we can centrally and remotely wipe the device, lock the device, or Kill the device.

The second most secure (believe it or not) are the Windows Mobile in conjunction with Exchange 2003 SP2 with OMA (Outlook Mobile Access) which essentially gives us the same capabilities.

The iPhone has no such centrally managed service and hence if the phone is lost or stolen then the user's data is available and can even be used by the thief until AT&T cuts service but even then they still have the data which in the case of an Enterprise device is unacceptable.

I don't understand why Apple doesn't put a management piece on the fast-track other than it isn't too concerned with Enterprise sales.