People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
Edmund Burke, Reflections on Revolution in
France
Truly this is a revolution in the smartphone world. This as the official results from Nielsen (14,000) strong participants in their November 2010 to February 2011 survey, which has now been officially confirmed independently by COMscore.
Audia Granston, my Seventh Day Adventist femme fetale, were she alive, would declare “smack dat ass a fe you!”, 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) Style in celebration of this delicious victory which is as tasty as her delights!!
There is also a twist and a surprise to this spiel……
It should now be clear to all who doubted me, especially those so-called brain-dead Generator Engineers from Shurpower, a Generator contractor and employees at Telecom Provider CLARO who neither read nor publish articles on Technology News on the Internet that Google Android is now King of the Hill.
Like Google Android, that would make me the King One-Eyed Man in the Land of the Blind employees at Telecom Provider CLARO, who are yet to begin endorsing ANY Android Smartphones, Apple exclusivity deal not withstanding.
No one saw this day coming, folks. ‘Cept me of course [grinning from ear to ear!]
Bragging rights for me, a habit traditional of Pure and Applied Sciences students from UWI, Mona Campus or Engineering students from University of Technology, both of which I am an alumni, especially Glenmuir High School, where I gained my original love for this murky statistics stuff.
Truly Helm’s Deep [Apple] is under attack in the smartphone arena for all who have eyes to read and ears to hear.
Quite fitting description, as I know readers relate more to movies than they do to real life as noted in
my blog article entitled “
Google and AI – I Robot”. Especially as the recession has them depressed, immersed in Cable TV and movie watching – or streaming as the case may be.
This meeting on Monday June 6
th 2011 to Friday June 10
th 2011 is to make what may be for Proprietary Apple Inc their
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) against the Might of Open Source in the smartphone arena in the guise of Google Android.
Already, the disfigured and grotesque mercenaries and conscripts fighting under the banner of Mordor and Sauron [Dell and HP] have made Alliances with He Who Wields the One Ring [Open Source Linux Creator, Linus Torvald; Google] are attacking the Gates of Helm’s Deep as stated
in my Geezam Blog article entitled “
Apple iPhone and Google Android – Helms Deep Under Attack”.
Open Source making a seriously strong impression in terms of performance and options is also true in the PC and Laptop Arena of Silicon Valley!
This as No. 1 PC maker Dell has be porting Ubuntu Linux Distribution as an option on its lucrative build-to-order PC and Laptops
shtick since 2007 and HP, in No. 2 position, has been pushing its recently acquired Open Source WebOS Ecosystem on its PC’s and Laptops. So say
my Geezam Blog article entitled “
HP and WebOS – 2011 is the Year of the Linux on PC”.
Why so smug in my celebration?
Because….. [smiling devilishly] ……I had predicted Google Android’s meteoric rise in April 2009 to those so-called brain-dead Generator Engineers from Shurpower, a Generator contractor, from a mere 2% of market share in the Fourth Quarter of 2009 to their current stratospheric heights of with 33% of US market share in the First Quarter of 2011AD.
This up 7% from the previous mark of 26% in the Fourth Quarter of 2010!
I celebrated this
Sunday April 17th 2011 after crunching the numbers by doing my secret dance and eating chocolate whole day!!!
Lots of emphasis on the “especially”s today in my super long article, after writing up a storm for the Geezam Blog and taking two (2) days off from my personal blog over the weekend of Saturday April 16th 2011 and Sunday April 17th 2011 respectively!
Feeling great and ready to take on de werl!!!!
Customers looking for a phone to have on a pricey two (2) year contract DO prefer high end mobile phones [smartphones] over low end mobile phones [feature phones].
Most likely all too true for the forthcoming Second Quarter of 2011 in this run up to the Summer of 2011 and the London Olympics 2012!
After all, these recent batch of smartphones are, for want of a better word, handheld gaming Platform …… not a car.
This 25% overall market share for all smartphone in the Second Quarter of 2010 has ballooned to potentially 47% of market share for all smartphone in the First Quarter of 2011 as noted by CNET News reported Lance Whitney in his article “
Android is No. 1 OS but Apple, RIM rule devices”, published March 4, 2011 9:08 AM PST by Lance Whitney, Google Android –
CNET News.
Nokia, who are now trailing at the bottom of the scrap heap at 2% of market share for the First Quarter of 2011 based on data capture between November 2010 to February 2011 as stated in the article “Android pulls ahead, while HTC enjoys the ride”, published March 3, 2011, 6:44am PT by Ryan Kim,
GigaOM may not be in such bad shape after all.
Gartner, that plucky analyst that had been making Nielsen steal the show thus far, had come out swinging in favour of the Nokia + Microsoft mash-up as stated in the article “
Gartner: Android Market share to near 50 percent”, published April 7, 2011 6:26 AM PDT by Don Reisinger The Digital Home –
CNET News.
Surprise!!!
I also wrote a soon-to-be-published blog article about the Nokia + Microsoft mashup on the
Geezam Blog that suggests that Open Source OS such WebOS are poised to rise due to Developer Support from the Linux Community who are more drawn to its Open Source nature.
Couple that with WebOS ability to print out of the box, folks Thus, I had already crowned WebOS, a sure winner to take up the No. 2 spot in the future.
NOT Nokia + Microsoft rushed marriage by
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and newly minted Nokia CEO Stephen Elop a former Microsoft Executive.
Especially after that now famous “Burning Platform” memo, which stated, quote: “There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them. There will be challenges. We will overcome them. Success requires speed. We will be swift. Together, we see the opportunity, and we have the ill, the resources and the drive to succeed.”
Effectively Nokia + Microsoft
rubbished years of development of Symbian, which still had Developer potential. Especially being as Nokia had just ported the o touch-centric smartphone OS to the Open Source Community in August 2010, the largest such code migration to date as stated in the article “
Symbian now fully open-sourced”, published February 4, 2010 6:25 AM PST by David Meyer,
CNET News – Wireless.
However, that
Geezam Blog article is a Part One of a Two Part ditty, so the story of what Nokia + Microsoft should do is not ye written, folks!
Predicting Nokia + Microsoft to bounce back to second place with 19.5% market share by 2015 in the US smartphone market, with Google Android securing nearly 50% of the US market share in that same year, thus STILL in pole position is a prediction that indicates that Gartner has some SERIOUSLY LARGE balls.
Only time will tell if I am right about WebOS and the potential of Open Source in 2011AD, this declared Year of Linux!
Or Gartner is right about Nokia + Microsoft and their marriages of Microsoft’s stellar Windows Phone 7 Tiles interface that it ripe for Developer contribution with excellent and robust hardware of Nokia,
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) Style.
‘cause which ever way you spin it, Google Android smartphones are set to take over the world, which follows after the United States of America by a smartphone trend set in motion by the Apple iPhone
More time!
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