Selling point
If apple made a dual-sim one I'd buy it tomorrow.
The iPhone juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down, with Apple boosting production of its money-minting smartphone from a previously planned 19 million to a cool 20 to 21 million in the first calendar quarter of 2011. That's the word from "Taiwan-based component suppliers", as reported by the market-watchers at DigiTimes on …
At first he thought it was an iPhone 4. Should've seen his face fall until he realised it was actually a touch.
You'da thunk it would be the other way round, but apparently he wants a phone that works like a phone!
Can't say I blame him, but then I wouldn't have wanted the iPod either!
where around one's body they expect one to stow a big clumsy piece of electronic equipment. A slim, narrow candy-bar phone is much more useful to 99% of people in the real world, so what reason other than poser-value can there be for buying an iPhone or for that matter any of the smartphones?
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CEO Steve Jobs noted that iPhone sales had been particularly brisk in that quarter: "iPhone sales of 14.1 million were up 91 percent year-over-year," he boasted – and then he couldn't resist adding a dig at the competition: "handily beating the 12.1 million phones RIM sold in their most recent quarter." [...]
Well, Gartner's figures are similar (if a little lower) and points out that Android-based phones sold around 20m phones in that same period.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1466313
(second table)
And that Symbian sold nearly 30m in that same period (so more than iPhone and RIM combined).
So the iPhone is looking good in third place :-) particularly given how few new phones Nokia released during 2010.
android is NOT a manufacturer. its a _FREE_ OS
so please break those 20m sales down by manufacturer and see what position each of them are in.
i dont remember anyone ever comparing Linux installs to Compaq unit shipments in the past, so why is everyone now doing the equivalent with phones?