Android is picking up…
According to this post android is picking up market share at an unprecedented pace.
Obviously the graph is on the traffic source rather then number of users or handset sales and at least in my experience, android encourages users to use their device more for the internet, nevertheless it should give the idea. And it is based on the US data, where android powered phones and devices are marketed as much aggressively as iPhone, so for the rest of the world, iPhone shares should be on the positive side for Apple’s account.
However, what to read from this piece of information is being totally justifying the motivation for Apple – HTC lawsuit, iPhone is loosing a great deal of market share to Android. On the flip side of the coin, despite a big deal of re-work in Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft is far from being a major player in the game.
Another thing I could read from the data is, mobile arena is one of the largest market, where innovation and quality is awarded with immediate market share. While it takes years to change the adopted habits on the desktop computing – even with the netbook market wars, mobile users seem to be have more tendency to switch their choice of operating system. I can also see this as having used 3 different OS’es in the last 7 years – symbian, Windows Mobile, Android…
Being a hardcore Linux and java and eclipse developer, I can hardly wait to have some time to start doing professional stuff on Android.
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