Posts Tagged ‘iOS’

There is always a way to blame someone else. Apple denies that it is tracking the location of iPhone users, which really appears to be a problem of semantics. However, pigs do fly as the company responded to recent concerns of privacy violations over location tracking and Apple noted that it will make changes to the way it stores location data.

No tablet besides the iPad is selling in volume at the moment.  The Galaxy Tablet, Samsung’s big hope, sold about 250,000 units in the high selling fourth quarter even though stores had around 2,000,000 to sell. Motorola’s Xoom supposedly shipped in similar numbers and since it has launched sold around 100,000. This is against 300,000 for the iPad 1 over its launch weekend and most estimates have the iPad 2 at around twice that during it’s launch weekend and Apple appears to be selling every one of those they can build.  The yablet market is currently only an iPad market.

It really was a matter of time until someone would question the value of market forecasts that aim to predict the shipment volume of a product segment that has not left its disruptive phase yet and is likely to change its pace several times a year. Can you trust those four year forecasts that now expect Windows Phone market share to surpass Apple iOS Smartphone market share by 2015?

Following IDC, Gartner has also released a market forecast for smartphone platform market shares. Microsoft can take a deep breath, HP should be thinking about ditching WebOS.

Market researchers from IDC expect Google’s Android to capture more than twice the smartphone platform market share of Apple’s iOS this year. However, it’s growth will slow down and the opportunity will transition to Windows Phone 7 (WP7), which will become a more popular smartphone OS than Apple’s iOS.

As insignificant Opera may be on the desktop, it is the leading mobile browser globally, with about 105 million active users. However, there are market trends that question the future of the mobile browser.

Samsung hast just announced its carrier partners for the Galaxy tablet. It is now clear that the Galaxy is not an experiment. It is positioned to scale with the market and outrun Apple with sheer market volume and aggressive pricing.

It has been a cat and mouse game all along. But it appears that a low level exploit in iOS could be making Apple’s patch efforts much more difficult. If you jailbreak your iPhone, a simple iOS update may not “break” your jailbroken iPhone anymore.

Android clearly got analysts excited these days. Gartner now says that it will outgrow every other popular mobile OS and challenge Symbian for market leadership within 3 years.

Do we ever get tired of new iPods? Apple has announced a plethora of new products earlier today, ranging from a new iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Touch, to a new Apple TV, a new iTunes with a new logo, a social network, and two new iOS versions. There was no shortage of news, but, for the first time in years, we wonder whether Apple may have announced the wrong products at the wrong time. In fact, we believe that Apple has exposed itself, and missed to upgrade its products effectively, which gives its rivals a chance to take a shot and challenge Apple’s leadership in key markets.

Apple’s iOS operating system that is currently running on iPhones, iPads and the iPad Touch has surpassed Linux in market share. However, data also suggests that Blackberry OS has surpassed iOS market share in the U.S. last month.