Archive for category Market Share

IDC on Android

Posted by Simon Judge, Freelance Mobile Developer in Android, Market Share, phones on May 13th, 2009

idcFrancisco Jeronimo of IDC expects Android to grow around 420 per cent to a total of 3.6m units worldwide in 2009. Why are operators keen on Android? He says..

“Operators want to balance power between OSs in order to keep control of the market”

“Android is a free OS, it’s a sufficient mature platform for most operators and vendors, has a powerful brand behind with all Google’s services integrated and it has a good touchscreen user interface”

So why are some operators seeking to remove Google specific services?

Android Smartphone Shipments to Grow 900 Percent in 2009

Posted by Simon Judge, Freelance Mobile Developer in Android, Market Share on May 11th, 2009

strategyanalyticsThere’s an interesting press release at StrategyAnalytics claiming that Android smartphone shipments will grow 900 percent in 2009.

“Android is expanding from a low base and it is consequently outgrowing the iPhone OS from Apple, which we estimate will grow at a relatively lower 79 percent annually in 2009.”

T-Mobile recently announced they have shipped about 1 million devices in the US and 100,000 in the UK. However, some of these sales were already in 2009. So we can say it will be less than 10 million for the year. Remember, this is an analyst guess which could be wildly out either way.