Android overtakes Nokia’s Symbian

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14 points·rbanffy··7 comments

Registered users only. Here's a free alternative with the same source, I believe: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/31/android-sym...

This is the interesting part, IMO:

(...) the smartphone market itself (...) grew by 88.6% between the fourth quarters of 2009 and 2010, from 53.7m phones sold to 101.2m.

Almost two times the number of total smartphone from last year, meaning the platform is still expanding very fast.

Google's increase from Q4 2009 to Q4 2010: 615.1%.

Say what you will about the Android vs iOS debate, but that's damn impressive.

Android selling 3x their closest competitor in the US market (RIMM) last quarter is also a very big number.

"FT.com articles are only available to registered users and subscribers."

And anyone coming from Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aft.com+%22Android+over...

Overtakes in quarterly sales, Symbian's install base is still much larger than Android's.

Does anyone care about that installed base though? Most of those devices aren't going to be ones that people particularly want to develop for. The number of "modern" Symbian devices is going to be much smaller, and might even already be lower than that of "modern" Android devices.

And anyway given the growth of the market as a whole, the new devices sold next year are going to totally overwhelm whatever pre-existing base there is.

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