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Apple might not be taking anyone’s share. They’re just grabbing people who might never have bought a smartphone to begin with because they were too difficult to use.

All this jabber back and forth about which device is better/terrible, how evil AT&T and Apple are, etc. tends (they hope) to distract many from the facts of the matter: the iPhone is a truly and FACTUALLY great product as evidenced by its sales statistics, both of the phone and of the apps. This is also due in no small part to the genius behind the design of the overall ecosystem: OS X, Xcode, system integration, etc.

NO ONE has anything to compare, and it shows in THEIR statistics. Just the facts, plain and simple, which no amount of jibber-jabber can conceal.

ps. Bet that bloke wished he paid better attention in school.

@turnips
There is a reason why I and any self-respecting analyst compares the current quarter with the same quarter the year before. It is called seasonality. Every product has quarters like the lead-up to Christmas where a drop (or increase) the following quarter means nothing unless you compare it to the same time the year before.

As such, I really don’t know how you can say the 15% drop in Nokia’s share year-over-year compared to the iPhone’s 625% increase from 0.7 to 5.32 million is anything but spectacular no matter how you try to play statistics.

As far as the future is concerned, my criticism of Nokia’s strategy is based on facts not crystal balls or a wish for them to crumple up and die. For starters look at their history – a plummeting marketshare and very slow reaction times to the competition and failed ventures with N-Gage and linux mini-tablet computers. Then there is the past fragmentation in incompatible operating system variants in Symbian itself and wider between their low-end phones and higher-end devices has all combined to make their platform far less compelling for developers and ultimately customers alike.

With the iPod Touch giving the iPhone OS an even larger installed base of 50 million devices and 1.8 billion downloads from the App Store, the importance of a viable developer platform cannot be over-stated. By continuing with their fragmented strategy and a delay of at least 2 years before QT gives some degree of limited compatibility, surely you don’t need to be psychic to realise that Nokia faces an uphill battle and a terribly terribly late start (or re-start in fact) in this race to establish the next big thing – the always-connected pocket computer?

In this particular race, no, I don’t think everyone will have an iPhone, though people said that about the iPod and the iTunes Store too – and look at them now – 70-80% marketshare and the World’s biggest Music retailer – so who knows? However, I think it is more likely that Android and iPhone will be the 2 biggest players perhaps with Blackberry and Nokia vying for third. Time will tell,

peace.

-Mart

@Turnips

Your “perception” is decidedly myopic. Apple is more vital than ever in the PC market, a fact, evidenced by statistics (Apple reports that roughly half of their computer customers are either first-time computer buyers or first-time Mac computer buyers), which you conveniently ignore. But then, you’re one to employ statistics “creatively”, aren’t you.

Their newly released Snow Leopard OS is poised even better to take advantage of the new multi-core strategy for increasing computing power, for one thing. They’d hardly invest in such if their computer business was “history.”

It’s odd, also, that you critics continue to ignore the fact that one, if not THE, advantage that Apple has over everyone else is its core OS and the device interoperability that alone affords.

This is an advantage not only for end users but for developers.

The more you downplay and ignore these factors, the more you confirm for others your particular delusions.

@ Turnips

Sure, and Mr Bill Gates and Steve Jobs smoked weed together while they were both trying to steal the technology of Xerox (The ones that invented both the graphical UI and the mouse originally) back in the 80s.

But who really cares about personal insults? Mac OS X is still the most advanced OS currently out there. And the world is slowly but surely discovering it. I guess Steve Jobs was the smartest crook in the street gang afterall, despite his personal social problems just like Mr Bill Gates personal problems.

The difference is quite clear tho, while Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are both filthy rich crooks, one of them focuses on trying to deliver the very best quality (Jobs), and the other tries to deliver the very best quantity (Gates)

So it all boils down to what kind of person we are within ourself. Some of us are focused on quality and streamlined effectiviness in our work (Mac) while others are focused on pure quantity with lack of quality and stability (Windows) – Both systems works well as long as you got the right personality for it.

I personally prefer using a mac since after I converted from windows I have been able to convert 90% of the waste time i used on keeping windows running into pure creative and money producing tasks on mac, because mac just…. Works…

But do not think i’m trying to smack-talk you, as i said, some people love using their time fixing stuff all day long. And for those kinds of people, windows is sure going to be a great place to work for many years to come. And you most likely will get payed good for the troubleshoot work too since so many companies seems to love having trouble to fix instead of having pure productivity and stability in focus.

Oh and the PC/windows combination is pretty much the best choice for games…