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The Incredible Speed At Which Android Has Destroyed BlackBerry And Windows Phone
Asymco ‘s Horace Dediu made this wonderful chart depicting the state of smartphone market share in the United States.
Look at how Android and Apple have destroyed BlackBerry’s share and barred Microsoft entry into the market.
Witness also the swift obsolescence of non-smartphones.
Kaboom!
drag2share: MOBILE INSIGHTS: Android Tablets Overtake The iPad In Shipments Last Quarter
MOBILE INSIGHTS: Android Tablets Overtake The iPad In Shipments Last Quarter
May 2, 2013
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Android Sees More Tablet Shipments In First Quarter Than Apple (Business Insider)
IDC’s latest data on tablet shipments confirms the trend we’ve been following: the steady gains of Android tablets around the world. Taken together, Android tablet manufacturers shipped more tablets than Apple in the first quarter of 2013. Apple was still the largest single manufacturer, with Samsung in second place. Microsoft shipped a respectable 900,000 tablets. A contrarian take: Greg Sterling of Opus Research points out that iPads still account for over 80% of actual usage — globally and in the U.S. — as measured by Web traffic. Read >
CHART OF THE DAY: This Is A Business That Will Die In Five Years, According To BlackBerry’s CEO
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-macs-vs-ipads-2013-4
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said, “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”
He believes we’re going to carry around a single device that powers all our other screens. That since device is going to be a smartphone in his opinion, and therefore tablets are going to be totally irrelevant.
He also says, “Tablets themselves are not a good business model.”
To which, we present this chart from Dan Frommer. As you can see, through three years the iPad has sold 140 million units, almost double what Apple has done with the Mac.
Perhaps the wheels fall off this thing, and it disappears from existence in five years. We doubt it.
The reason the iPad sells well, despite being slightly redundant, is that people like to have dedicated gadgets. People don’t want one device to power everything.
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