Iphone Q4 2007 Growing Market Share

Quoting Seth Weintraub article: “During last week’s Enterprise/SDK Event, Steve Jobs and Co. took a few jabs at the #1 Enterprise smartphone maker, RIM. Here’s how it went down.

During the first few minutes of the presentation, Steve Jobs showed the U.S. SmartPhone Marketshare from the big manufacturers.

RIM 41%
Apple 28%
No one else even in double digits. Apple isn’t too worried about Windows Mobile or Symbian at this point. This is Apple vs. RIM.”

This is, at the end of the day, the trend I’ve predicted in my last post written last Dicember.

The new mobile era

What are the implications of the introduction of the iPhone in the mobile phone industry? What is coming next with the introduction of Android, the Google sponsored Alliance’s next open source Linux based mobile OS?

Well my own humble prevision is that the devices are going to be commodities as are today PC hardware (with the exeption of the Mac platform) and the battle will bend on the software side with only two possible models:

1) Apple iPhone and few other proprietary OSes (Blackberry and Windows Mobile for the business world, Symbian instead will be doomed by the iPhone on the consumer market);
2) Open source Mobile OS as Android or other Linux based OS fully available to the consumer and business users.

Android in particular will grow in the next years essentially in that segment of the consumer market left available by the iPhone price positioning (below $ 150) contributing to increase Symbians difficulties to follow the increasing innovation provided by such devices as the Gphone & iPhone.

If you don’t need an advanced phone for business purposes as a BlackBerry or a fancy looking gadget as the iPhone you can always swith to a basic phone for less than a 100 bucks and install Android: you will obtain a fully enhanced device for much less than the currently over priced 500 bucks Nokia N95 !

PS: take a look to this article published on Mon, 12/17/2007 .