Brief: Symbian Exec wants their OS on 1 in 10 mobile phones by 2011
By Stefan Constantinescu on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 at 3:08 PM PST In Symbian
Vice-President for Symbian’s Strategy John Forsyth said on Wednesday that the company is aiming to supply 10 percent of the world-wide mobile phone market within the next three years.
Good luck with that sir, but I think Android is going to seriously stunt slow you down.
[Via: Reuters]
I thought with Nokia selling 40% of all mobiles, whiwch all use Symbian, combined with SE UIQ and Samsung etc, the share would be already far higher than 10%!?? I am obviously missing something here what is it?
the smartphone market is very small compared to the rest of the mobile phone space. nokia sells 100 million phones per quarter yet it took Nseries almost 2 years to break 50 million units. think about that.
So by Symbian the Reuters article really means S60? That would make much more sense.
My God, I am so dumb, in all this time of mobile geekery I thought Symbian made S40.
Android? Really? Hmm.. I am not convinced YET.
10% of the market is not a lot! Symbian needs to aim 80% of the market! They should have Nokia/SE/Moto/Samsung make ALL their phones with Symbian inside then you’d have quite a market within a short time!