Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Is Android Finally at an Inflection Point?
The Android seems to have hit a sales inflection point, and is poised to take share in the smartphone market, according to ChangeWave Research.
More buyers now are indicating they will be buying Android devices, and fewer say they will be buying an iPhone. In September 2009 about six percent of respondents to 21 percent of respondents to a recent ChangeWave Research survey.
At the same time, where 32 percent of respondents said they would be buying an iPhone in September, 28 percent said they would be doing so in the December 2009 survey.
The ChangeWave Research data suggests that Android has hit an inflection point, after roughly a year on the market, a time when some observers might have wondered whether Android would emerge as a viable alternative to the iPhone.
The ChangeWave survey also suggests that the Android is taking share from other devices as well, with the possible exception of the BlackBerry. Where 17 percent of respondents said they would be buying a BlackBerry in September, about 18 percent said they would be doing so in December.
But Windows Mobile buying intentions were about nine percent in September and had dropped to six percent by December. Likewise, about six percent of respondents suggested they would be buying a Palm OS device in September; just three percent in December.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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