Android's share of the U.S. smartphone market fell from 52.4 percent in the December quarter to 49.5 percent last quarter. It could be worse. Look at what has happened to Research in Motion.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Android Share in U.S. to Drop?
After Google's Android experienced its first loss of market share in a region since 2009 during the March quarter, Needham & Co. analyst Charlie Wolf predicted Android would regain share in the June and September quarters before a "material decline" in the December quarter following the expected launch of the iPhone 5. "In our opinion, this is just the beginning of Android’s share loss in the U.S.," Wolf says.
Android's share of the U.S. smartphone market fell from 52.4 percent in the December quarter to 49.5 percent last quarter. It could be worse. Look at what has happened to Research in Motion.
Android's share of the U.S. smartphone market fell from 52.4 percent in the December quarter to 49.5 percent last quarter. It could be worse. Look at what has happened to Research in Motion.
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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