Canalys released their full year 2011 smartphone global sales stats last Friday. An amazing 488 million smartphone were shipped in 2011. While sales by individual companies are interesting, the table most useful for mobile developers is the split by platform…
 
Android now has more than double the market share of iOS. Symbian is dying fast. Windows […]

Interesting stats from Gartner today on worldwide device sales for Q3 2011. Android accounted for 52.5 percent of smartphone sales. Smartphones accounted for 26 percent of all mobile phone sales. Of most interest to developers will be the the relative market shares of the mobile platforms… 

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Microsoft has a new post bragging how they now have license agreements accounting for over half of all Android devices. The comments in the Microsoft post make entertaining reading, particularly the one that shows the patents are very generic such as implementing both long and short file names in the same file system.
My thoughts are similar […]

According to my web logs, my post yesterday on Nokia MeeGo and Belle was very popular. Some people agreed with me on Twitter. However, a tweet by Sebastian Brannstrom made me look at it from another angle. He said "I think an important factor is the staggering cost of Nokia R&D. They can’t develop at […]

A year ago, Google was talking about the potential of a billion people using Android. Today, I came across the some signs that Android is taking hold in the developing World.
However, I don’t think the $80 Huawei IDEOS is the answer to the next billion. It’s not inexpensive enough. I purchased a HTC device from […]

Canalys released their worldwide smartphone statistics for Q2 2011 yesterday. An amazing 107.7 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2011. Only a few years ago I was saying the smartphone market was small compared to the market for all phones. Today, smartphones are ubiquitous and mobile development is no longer experimental but mainstream.
Here’s […]

The Vision Mobile Developer Economics report has an interesting chart showing fragmentation of the various platforms. That is, the number of versions of an app that have to be developed to cater for different versions of a given OS.
 

This concurs with my previous observation that problems of Android Fragmentation have been exaggerated. However, I suppose […]