Apple may make the highest performance smartphone chips, but they’re only used in Apple’s phones, tablets, and PCs which means they have a limited market share. Meanwhile rivals including Qualcomm and MediaTek (and to some degree Samsung) sell their chips to multiple phone makers, which has helped them ship a lot of processors. With a product […]
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Reports: Windows Phone market share is falling fast
Android is the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, followed by iOS. Windows comes in a distant third, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change anytime soon… unless Windows movies further down the ladder. According to a new report from Gartner, about 3 percent of all smartphones sold during the third quarter of […]
Tizen is now more popular than BlackBerry OS, which isn’t saying much
There are billions of smartphones in the wild and most of them are running Google Android while a smaller (but still huge) number are iPhones powered by Apple’s iOS software. They’re not the only mobile operating systems, but they’re certainly the most popular: earlier this year IDC estimated that all the other smartphone operating systems […]
Smartphone growth on the decline
While the PC market has seen declining growth in recent years, smartphones have generally been a bright spot: phone makers have been selling more smartphones each year than the last. But that kind of growth might not last much longer. Research from Gartner shows a slowdown in the worldwide growth rate of smartphone sales. Sure, […]
Linux loses more netbook market share
A year and a half ago you would have been hard pressed to find a netbook (defined as a 10 inch or small mini-laptop for around $400) that came with Windows XP. The original Asus Eee PC 701, Everex Cloudbook, and other early netbooks all ran Linux. Today, 90% of all mini-laptops sold in the […]
Acer gains serious PC market share, thanks to netbooks
A report out today from iSuppli claims that global notebook sales surpassed desktop PC sales for the first time last quarter. But I feel like I keep seeing that headline over and over so I’m not going to put too much stock in it. Much more interesting is iSuppli’s finding that Acer’s market share was […]
Report: Asus holds 60% of netbook share in Europe
While Acer may be trouncing Asus in terms of global netbook shipments, Asus issued a press release today claiming that the company’s mini-laptops account for 60% of all netbooks sold in Europe. Asus netbooks are doing particularly well in Germany, france, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Russia. Asus was the first company to […]
Report: Netbook market grew by 160% in Q3, 2008
While notebook and desktop PC sales aren’t selling as well as anticipated, netbooks continue to be a growth market. According to a report from DisplaySearch, the market grew by 160% betwen the second and third quarters of 2008. That number’s not particularly surprising, since the netbook market was born just over a year ago. While […]