Android and iOS dominate unit shares
by Volker Weber
"Instead of a battle for the third ecosystem after Android and iOS, 2014 instead yielded skirmishes, with Windows Phone edging out BlackBerry, Firefox, Sailfish and the rest, but without any of these platforms making the kind of gains needed to challenge the top two," said Melissa Chau, Senior Research Manager with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
The latest IDC numbers paint a very black picture for BlackBerry and a dark grey one for Windows Phone. A few thoughts of my own:
- Apple continues to dominate profit shares. Nobody in the mobile market is making as much money. Rightfully so. They have the best products.
- Android is making huge gains against everybody else. But only Samsung is making any money, and their profits are declining. Expect Samsung to be unseated by Chinese vendors.
- Nokiasoft has not found success as they predicted, not even by going downmarket with cheap handsets. The Next Version needs to fix it. Again.
- BlackBerry is now below one percent and completely irrelevant, as far as the public is concerned. Hardly anybody is considering buying another BlackBerry. Anybody but a few companies who value the security of their data. Will they be able to sustain their hardware business? We will find out this year.
- Tizen, Sailfish, Ubuntu, Firefox OS? Yeah, right.
Comments
I am sorry about BlackBerry. I like the "solution", but the fact they do not sell anymore Z10 or Z30 in Germany, I guess they don´t want to stay in business. Let´s see.
@Hubert: How many Z30 or Z10 do you need? You should still be able to get the Z30 in the hundreds, I am not sure for the Z10.
> But only Samsung is making any money
Is it still true? I thought LG and HTC are back in making profits.
> But only Samsung is making any money
Stefan - they are all making profits. It's just that some have a 200%+ profit margin which many consumers refuse to support.
Stefan, follow the link behind "dominate profit shares". The numbers are pretty obvious.
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