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The Smartphone Salad Days Are Over Posted: 01 Aug 2011 04:18 AM PDT Horace Dediu notes that Nokia and RIM are on a precipitous decline and that it is now, in short, a two horse race: Apple v. Android. The age of the smartphone – an era where anyone with a keyboard and some apps could make it in the world marketplace – is over. We also see from this chart that HTC will soon be the brand to beat these days and that Samsung, though powerful, is already on par with Apple in smartphone sales. Remember that Samsung no longer announces handset sales so this could be the last time we see real data on smartphones with this sort of specificity. In general, there are two players, and, barring amazing performance by Windows Phone, not much will change in the next year or so. |
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