Apple’s iPhone Outsells All Windows Mobile Phones Combined
Apple’s entry into the mobile phone market has been a pretty spectacular success in its first six months on the market, according to research house Canalys. As Roughly Drafted notes, in North America, the iPhone is the No. 2 smartphone platform, not just model. It trails only the full BlackBerry market at this point, but is ahead of all combined Windows Mobile devices. This confirms an earlier NPD report that Apple was commanding about 27 percent of the smartphone market. In honor of this moment, let’s look back at some memorable quotes of the last year:
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
– Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
– Ed Colligan, Palm CEO
“They would have been stepping in between us and our customers to the point where we would have almost had to take a back seat … on hardware and service support.”
– Jim Gerace, Verizon Wireless VP
“What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures.”
– John Dvorak, International Tool
Ah, memories.
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