Comments on: Check Mate for Google’s Android?

By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Business Observations: July 1, 2008 Edition

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:17:54 +0000

[...] Check Mate for Google’s Android? [...]

By: Anders Borg

Anders Borg — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:20:09 +0000

I’m not so sure about that, as Symbian is a rather scattered collage of applications and system components. I’m not saying Android isn’t, but I doubt it, as it doesn’t have the history Symbian has, but Nokia and the new forum needs to shape up Symbian to make it useful for broad and intuitive information and multimedia use by “normal” people. E.g. there needs to be a “transparent” connection to at least one e-shop for multimedia from day one (read: Nokia’s own), something Apple has done well, and Google might do well too, but less likely.

By: MobHappy » Blog Archive » More On The Big Symbian News

MobHappy » Blog Archive » More On The Big Symbian News — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:02 +0000

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By: Russell Buckley

Russell Buckley — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:20:09 +0000

Hi Heitor

Actually, I meant that it has 55% share of the Smartphone sector, so we’re roughly in the same place.

Thanks for clarifying.

Russell

By: Heitor

Heitor — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:00:52 +0000

Hi Russel. I think the 55% share are in fact a bit skewed since globally Symbian has a market share of 7% (http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/news/articles/20017534660.html).
That number is probably more aligned with the smartphone market share, which possibly constitutes most of your audience.