12/17/2007, 11:55am, EST
Monday, December 17thiPhone trumping Windows Mobile ownership
The iPhone has already overtaken Windows Mobile phones in terms of North American smartphone popularity, a report from Canalys suggests. The iPhone currently occupies 27 percent of the US market; despite not being legally available in Canada or Mexico, this has reportedly been enough to put it in second place in North America overall, slightly ahead of the Windows Mobile platform. The market is dominated by Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform, which controls more than a third of sales.
BlackBerries have become extremely popular with businessmen, due to RIM's dedicated push e-mail network, and a keypad which simplifies the normally difficult process of typing on a cellphone. Microsoft has meanwhile failed to grow Windows Mobile as expected; this may be the reason for iPhone-like updates to the recent Windows Mobile 6.1, and similar ones for a future incarnation of the OS.
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Other story tags: Microsoft, Windows Mobile, cellphones, Symbian
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Anyone out there care to extrapolate current growth numbers for a more plausible estimate?
On to my comment... I just wanted to point out that the figures may be misleading when looking at sales vs. actual users, BUT... this is the same for all (not just iPhone). These numbers may be based off sales, but it's sales for all smart phones and that fact, if it continues to rise consistently, will start eating away at the others user base.
Smart phones have shorter life-spans then a laptop or desktop computer (especially Mac). If numbers rise to between 30%-40% market share within the next 2 months, RIM and other smart phone manufactures better have a PIM (Plan In Motion) to combat their eroding user base.
Within 2-3 years, the iPhone could have 50% or more of the smart phone user base... All from a product merely 6 months old. Wow!