Smartphone market share in 2008

Just got the news from CNN, indicating that the sales of iPhone increase 245% in 2008

Currently Nokia dominates the smartphone market share, Research in Motion (RIM, the developer of BlackBerry) run after it, and Apple get the 3 position. Even though Nokia enjoys the large market share, but the sales in 2008 is not positive enough, while RIM, HTC and Samsung grows up in the market. The most obvious improvement counts to Apple.

A new product will be increase sales while the market recognizes your brand. Apple did not publish new product in the 4th quarter in 2008 and the sales is a little bit lower than that in the 3rd quarter. RIM with two new BlackBerry in the 4th quarter and Samsung with the new touchscreen Omnia have a better sales in the 4th quarter.

RIM recently announced that a new online application store, as a counterpart to Apple’s, will be released within a month. Apple iTunes Store enjoy great sales with its users. For RIM, the new store will bring further sales too.

Knowledge about smartphone operating system
Symbian was once owned by Erisson, Panasonic, Siemens and Nokia. After the acquisition of Symbian, Nokia is the final official owner. RIM develops its own operating system for BlackBerry. There are other operating systems like Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple Mac OS, etc.

Source:
CNN Money: http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/03/12/iphone-sales-grew-245-in-2008-gartner/
Bloomberg.com: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a9TgD6w9eRKU&refer=canada