Saturday, April 25, 2009

Lies, damned lies, and statistics... iPhone edition

I'm constantly heaping praise on the iPhone. It's by far the most useful, best designed smartphone / converged mobile device I've ever used - and I've used just about every one that's been released in the last decade. It is the product which all mobile device and software platform companies currently aim to beat.mobile platform market shareBut for a research vendor attempting to analyze iPhone's relative market success it is simply inexcusable to leave out Windows Mobile and Symbian. These platforms have both been around for nearly a decade, with hundreds of millions of devices sold and tens of thousands of applications available. Which is why charts like this are completely worthless.

No comments: