Full FeediPhone could overtake Symbian by 2010
Despite being relatively new to the competition, the iPhone is already a huge threat to the popular smart phone OS, Symbian. Despite the fact that Symbian has been around for about seven years, as opposed to the iPhone 3G’s two months on the market, iPhones may outnumber Symbian-powered phones in as little as two years.
Since its introduction, the number of phones that use the Symbian OS has reached just under 20 million in Japan alone. If current trends continue, Apple could sell 10 million iPhones by the end of this month, and that would cut away a sizeable chunk of Symbian’s lead. If both companies stay consistently on their current growth rates, the iPhone will have taken its position at the top of the heap in two years time. Should Apple maintain a 100% growth rate, they will have taken the lead in summer 2010, a 300% growth rate would put them in the lead late next year, while a 50% growth rate would put off their takeover until 2012.
Some people are saying that unless Symbian really pulls something out of their hat or iPhone sales suddenly slow down, Symbian’s loss of the lead is inevitable, especially since Symbian’s heyday has long since gone and the iPhone’s is just starting.
Via Electronista
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Take over? Overtake might be a more applicable term, regarding the relative market share of the two operating systems for mobile handsets and smartphones.
But, it’s a rather silly claim: Symbian is an open platform, whereas the OS X release for the iPhone is not. No mention is made of other significant players, including the Windows Mobile OS, the Blackberry OS, the Palm OS, the Danger OS and the Android OS.
on September 4, 2008 at 01:28 AM - LINKSymbian sold far more phones than 20 million since the begining.
Only this year it’s been shipping about 40 million Symbian devices. And over 200 millions since it started.
Whoever wrote this stuff didn’t do their research properly.
on September 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM - LINK“Since its introduction, the number of phones that use the Symbian OS has reached just under 20 million”
Hmmm Symbian sold 77.3 million phones just lasy year…...
Overall they have sold 220 million phones.
How much bias can this news had?
on September 4, 2008 at 10:28 AM - LINK