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Nielsen considers smartphone OSs
THE CAPPUCCINO COMPANY'S Iphone is three times more popular than the Android operating system according to numbers put out by the Nielsen Company.
The analyst outfit said that both of the operating systems are increasing their marketshare as mobile users seek to get more from their handsets and make the jump to smartphones. What these figures portend for nonphones like the Ipad is anyone's guess.
According to Nielsen's data, 23 per cent of mobile phone users have a smartphone, a gain of seven per cent over the 16 per cent reported in the second quarter of last year. Of course in those twelve months we have seen the new Iphone 3GS and more Android phones than you can shake a stick at, which might go some way to explain the increases.
Don Kellogg, senior manager in the research and insights for telecom practice at Nielsen said that both Android and the Iphone OS have seen their marketshares grow in the last few months by just around two per cent, while others such as the Blackberry OS and Windows Mobile have seen theirs drop by two per cent.
Nielsen looked closer at phone users and found that Android smartphones and the Iphone are most popular among young men. Android users show a 54 to 46 per cent gender split compared to the Iphone's 55 to 45 per cent, it said, while Kellogg added that Iphone users are likely to be richer and better educated than Android users, but only marginally so.
Users of smartphone operating systems might be more loyal too. Eighty per cent of Iphone users plan to stick with the handset the next time upgrades are rolled out, while 70 per cent of Android users will also replace like for like. In contrast, only 47 per cent of Blackberry users want another Blackberry and only 34 per cent of Windows Mobile want another one of the Vole's phones.
Overall, the Blackberry OS is the most popular of the smartphone brands, with 34 per cent marketshare, while the Iphone has 28 per cent, Windows Mobile 19 per cent, and the upstart Android nine per cent. µ
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TheInq are just quoting figures pumped out by Nielsen and failing to do anything vaguely journalistic like point out the Nielsen's figures are based purely on USA.
The USA's mobile phone usage and choice is completely out of kilter with the rest of the world. For example their network interchanges are/were so bad that SMS never took of, which is why the email based phones like the blackberry came about in the states. It was the only way to send text based messages reliably between mobiles there. Assuming your friend has an email equipped mobile of course.
Only the other day St Jobs said the iphone4 would only support video calling on wifi as they need to "work with the networks" to get it to work over the mobile network.
A feature the rest of the non iphone/USA world has been able to do over 3G since, well, 3G!
When you look at real world figures, despite Nokia's attempts to completely screw it up, Symbian is still the great white shark, and the iphone is just plankton.
I find it strange that no one is giving the importance symbian deserves. For once, it supports multi-tasking for YEARS.
You ain't fr'm round here, are y'boy?
I stared at "Cappucino Company's Iphone" for a couple of minutes, trying to figure out why they were calling Apple that. Did Apple do some deal with Starbucks that I hadn't heard about? Then I got it. The idiots meant "Cupertino".
It's iPhone not Iphone, please get this right from now on please.
LOL, If thats true, I'm chalking it up to the iphone being out first and locking them into 3 year contracts. I like to think most educated people would adopt a system with more power, more choice, and most importantly, easier on the wallet.
Shall we compare the blackberry and iphone now lol.
They forgot to mention better looking...