The Smartphone Wars a year in numbers
Submitted by brian s hall on 18 December, 2011 - 18:43
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Should auld smartphones be forgot and never brought to mind...
5 October 2011
Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple dies. One of the last to enter the smartphone wars, his product and ecosystem and vertically integrated company quickly came to dominate the market.
800
The Nokia Lumia 800, a hobbled MeeGo device, designed to be both savior of Nokia and the Windows Phone platform. As we close out 2011, it is neither.
This will never change.
10,000,000,000 - 18,000,000,000
The humble app has transformed the smartphone industry, publishing, social media, gaming and the world wide web. The smartphone is the primary interface to the global web and the app is the primary interface to the smartphone. Late this year, Google Android announced 10 billion app downloads from the Android Market. Apple announced 18 billion app downloads from the App Store.
7.04B
As the year closes, $RIMM is at $13.44. RIM/Blackberry, once the young Mike Tyson of the smartphone industry, is now worth a paltry $7.04 billion. Which is *half* of the value of iTunes, which is effectively a loss leader for Apple.
10
The new Blackberry OS. Now delayed into 2012. Except not really. It will never see the light of day.
$4.68
That is the current price of $NOK.
13,000
The word count of Tomi Ahonen's latest screed on Stephen Elop, accusing him essentially of corporate terrorism.
3,417
The average number of texts teens in the US send out -- each month. According to Nielsen, it's more precisely, 3,952 per month for girls and a shockingly high 2,815 per month for boys.
4S
The iPhone 4S is both the best selling smartphone and the best. Sort of like if a, er, Mercedes was the world's top selling automobile.
4
The number of smartphones Apple has released since 2008.
7 inches
The approximate size of all the tablets that have failed utterly in the marketplace and the approximate size of the tablet all pundits ssay Apple should build -- now.
$12.5 billion
The price Google will pay (once approved) for Motorola Mobility, a 63% premium over the company's share price on the day of the announcement (12 August 2011), and proof that Google desperately wanted to keep Moto from jumping ship to Windows Phone and keep Moto from suing other Android handset makers for patent violations and use Moto to become more like Apple, offering a vertically integrated company that offers smartphones, set-top boxes, possibly Chromebooks and more. Oh, and as a direct assault upon all things Microsoft, as JLG explains in his latest MondayNote.
2008/2009/2010/2011
The year of NFC.
53%
The US market share for Android smartphones.
9.5%
The US market share for Blackberry smartphones.
1.6%
The US market share for Windows Phone smartphones. And the sinle most important number Steve Ballmer looked at when shit-canning Andy Lees. The fact is, Microsoft is so far behind in smartphones -- the present and future of personal computing -- that I believe their future, come no later than 2016, is to become an enterprise services company, offering a variety of productivity, security and collaborative technologies. IBM will get the last laugh.
8
The next great Windows operating system to power PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets and smartphones. Maybe.
115,000
The minimum number of people that have read my "Google are Pussies" rant this year, on this site only.