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I am not a fan of Windows phones but I can see where they are coming from. Basically everyone who WAS buying Symbian phones will move over to Windows... they may be off by 2-5% but basically they are prolly right.
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I struggle to make the connection that current Symbian users will convert in high numbers to Windows7 simply because Nokia tells them to. I think they'll bleed significantly to Apple, and especially Android.
I've never touched a Windows phone though, so maybe other people like them. |
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But maybe Nokia has a lot more brand loyalty overseas than we do here. Who knows? |
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Think of it like this... Android didn't steal many EXISTING customers away from iPhone.. they just got a massively higher share of NEW customers. The same will happen with tablets as more and more of the big players get on the market. As many tablets that have been sold, it still represents a very very very small percentage of the potential market. The dark horses here are WebOS(HP) and Windows tablets. Windows has a real shot at changing the entire landscape. If so, Apple will still drop far below 50% but it just may not be Android alone that eats up the remaining share. Also don't forget that the Nook Color counts as an Android tablet... 3 million sold vs 15 million iPads.. that's a 15% to 75% share if you don't count ANY other tablets... cheap Android tablets will end up bringing in the largest share of new tablet buyers. |
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MUCH MUCH MUCH more likely to bleed to Android over iPhone. The Symbian community is much more similar to the Android community. |
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That's questionable. You can put android on my refrigerator, but that doesn't make it a giant tablet. The vast majority of those nooks lack critical functions that I'd consider necessary to call something a "tablet". There's a difference between being "powered by Android" and being an "Android tablet".
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From CNNmoney.com. The analysts weigh in:
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I seriously do support parity in the environment. It's great for both.
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They don't want people selling cheap knockoffs as "Android tablets" and hurting the brand. That's why they can and do deny access to the Market and Google Apps to low standard devices. And why they've refused to release Honeycomb source yet. |
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The iPhone is 4 years old.. Android phones have been out for 2 years. It took 2 years for the phones to take over the market... if we count the tablets as iPad being 1 year old and Android being 1 month old... I say it takes 18 months for the same to happen... and that may be a conservative estimate. |
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The only other "prediction" I made was regarding the Gemini tablet which had great specs and just never got released here in the States. I was dead wrong on that one. BTW I was not a fan of Android back when this thread started either... I preferred WebOS. Android has made huge strides since then though. I really haven't predicted much until recently. Which I assume you aren't talking about since they are all predictions in the last couple months and it'd be kinda hard to judge those so soon. |
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