iPhone 4S launch propels surging Apple 20% to close the gap with Android
Wed, Jan 18, 2012 - The launch of the iPhone 4S last October had an "enormous impact" on the U.S. smartphone landscape, boosting Apple's share among new buyers by almost 20 percent and putting it neck-and-neck with Android in December. ( 69 comments )
Gartner: Apple's iOS lost smartphone share to Android in Q3 2011
Tue, Nov 15, 2011 - With a limited number of iPhone models taking on a plethora of Android-powered handsets from multiple manufacturers, Apple's iOS actually lost market share in the worldwide smartphone market last quarter despite growing sales, according to the latest sales data from Gartner. ( 85 comments )
Nokia launches first Windows Phones to take on Apple's iPhone 4S
Wed, Oct 26, 2011 - Nokia on Wednesday introduced its first smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, two devices branded "Lumia" that the company hopes will compete with Apple's iPhone lineup. ( 201 comments )
Apple, Google gain in US smartphone share as RIM, Microsoft continue slide
Wed, Oct 5, 2011 - Apple's iPhone continues to gain market share in the U.S., now representing 27.3 percent of handsets, while competitors RIM, Microsoft and Nokia continue to slip. ( 53 comments )
Apple continues to gain US smartphone share as iOS hits 27%
Tue, Aug 30, 2011 - Apple's stateside share of the smartphone market continued to grow last quarter, with the iPhone representing 27 percent of the domestic mobile operating system market. ( 92 comments )
Apple's iOS and Google Android swell to 62 percent of smartphone market
Thu, Aug 11, 2011 - Apple's iOS and Google Android have more than doubled their collective smartphone market share in the last year, and now represent nearly two-thirds of all devices sold, according to Gartner. ( 30 comments )
First Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone 7 coming later this year
Tue, Jun 21, 2011 - Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop said Tuesday that his company expects to begin selling its first phones running Windows Phone later this year, before ramping up volume shipments in 2012. ( 47 comments )
Nokia denies $19B Microsoft purchase, but rumored deal viewed as boon for Apple
Wed, Jun 1, 2011 - Nokia reacted quickly on Wednesday to a report claiming its phone business was acquired by Microsoft for $19 billion, calling it "baseless." But one Wall Street analyst had another word to describe a hypothetical deal between the two companies, at least for Apple investors: "heaven." ( 51 comments )
ITC agrees to partial review of Nokia case against Apple
Thu, May 26, 2011 - The U.S. International Trade Commission announced Thursday that it will conduct a review of two of Nokia's patents in an infringement case against Apple, while dropping the remaining three from the investigation. ( 6 comments )
Nokia releases new Symbian phones, touts Symbian apps
Tue, Apr 12, 2011 - Nokia launched new Symbian smartphones that appear to be the platform's last gasp before shifting to Windows Phone 7, while also describing developer opportunities related to its mothballed platform in its Ovi Store. ( 33 comments )
Android to be on 49% of smartphones by 2012, leaving Apple's iOS with 19%, Gartner predicts
Thu, Apr 7, 2011 - Gartner's latest forecast for worldwide smartphone operating system market share predicts that Google Android will be present on nearly half of all handsets sold next year, while the iPhone and its iOS operating system will account for 19 percent of units sold. ( 87 comments )
IDC predicts Windows Phone will top Apple's iOS in market share by 2015
Tue, Mar 29, 2011 - A new forecast of the global smartphone platform market from research firm IDC has predicted that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform will see a resurgence in the next four years, overtaking Apple's iOS platform which powers the iPhone. ( 150 comments )
Microsoft paying Nokia billions to adopt Windows Phone platform
Mon, Feb 14, 2011 - Nokia will receive billions of dollars from Microsoft for adopting the Windows Phone platform on future smartphones, as the two companies struggle to compete with Apple and Google in the mobile space. ( 63 comments )
Analyst: Apple could benefit from Nokia, Microsoft partnership
Fri, Feb 11, 2011 - Commenting on Nokia's recent announcement that it will abandon its Symbian mobile operating system on smartphones in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, one analyst claimed that Apple could stand to benefit from the transition. ( 32 comments )
Nokia's rejection of Android may help resolve patent war with Apple
Fri, Feb 11, 2011 - Nokia's decision to partnership with Microsoft rather than adopt Google's Android may ease patent negotiations between the company and Apple, which is more likely to support strengthening weak rivals rather than empowering an already ubiquitous one. ( 31 comments )
Nokia ditches Symbian, embraces Microsoft Windows Phone for new handsets
Fri, Feb 11, 2011 - Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, announced on Friday its plans to ditch its Symbian mobile operating system and partner with Microsoft to make smartphones running Windows Phone. ( 266 comments )
Apple surpasses Sony, Motorola in total handset sales - Gartner
Wed, Feb 9, 2011 - The growth of Apple's iPhone in 2010 came at the expense of competitors who lost significant market share and experienced reduced sales, including Sony Ericsson and Motorola, according to new data from Gartner. ( 22 comments )
Nokia rumored to shift toward Silicon Valley, Windows Phone 7 [u]
Tue, Feb 8, 2011 - The world's top mobile vendor is reportedly considering plans to move its executive decision making from headquarters in Espoo, Finland to Silicon Valley in California, and is potentially eyeing an alliance with Microsoft in a bid to compete against Apple and Google in smartphones. ( 108 comments )
IDC: Apple still leads RIM as No. 2 worldwide smartphone maker
Mon, Feb 7, 2011 - Global smartphone sales have continued their explosive growth, topping 100 million total units last quarter, with Apple retaining second place among all vendors, according to IDC. ( 26 comments )
Google overtakes Nokia as top smartphone platform maker
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 - After passing Apple's iPhone on its way up, Google's Android has now passed up Nokia's Symbian to take the top spot among smartphone platforms, ending Nokia's 10 year reign on top of the global smartphone industry, according to one research firm. ( 57 comments )
Nokia pulls the plug on its 'Ovi Unlimited' iTunes competitor
Mon, Jan 17, 2011 - Nokia is pulling the plug on its Ovi Music Unlimited service in nearly every market it serves, citing incompatibility with iPods as a key problem. ( 18 comments )
Apple passes Nokia to become top smartphone maker in Australia
Tue, Dec 7, 2010 - Apple's iPhone has taken a 36.5 percent share of the smartphone market in Australia, passing Nokia's 30.5 percent share to become the continent's top smartphone maker. ( 17 comments )
Android activation pace hits a plateau below Apple's iOS [u]
Mon, Dec 6, 2010 - Android mobile activation numbers have leveled off dramatically after two years of rapid increases, signaling a maturing of the platform's growth phase as an alternative to Apple's iOS, which continues to claim a lead. ( 83 comments )
Global mobile split between Apple's iOS and Symbian
Wed, Dec 1, 2010 - December began with an blizzard, dumping heavy and dense piles of StatCounter web analytics about mobile users, each offering an apparently contradictory look at which vendors were ahead in the race to blanket the world with mobile devices. ( 11 comments )
RIM's BlackBerry overtakes Apple's iPhone in US browser usage
Wed, Dec 1, 2010 - A new report shows that Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform overtook Apple's iOS in terms of U.S. mobile Internet usage in November. ( 115 comments )
Windows Phone 7 developers fear platform flop
Mon, Nov 29, 2010 - Despite a reportedly healthy level of interest from developers, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 debut appears to have flopped with consumers, leaving developers cautious about investing in the platform. ( 291 comments )
IDC: Android poised to pass Apple's iOS, Nokia's Symbian in Europe
Mon, Nov 29, 2010 - Google's Android mobile operating system will pass Apple's iOS and Nokia's Symbian in 2011 to become the top smartphone platform in all of Europe, IDC has predicted. ( 119 comments )
Apple iPhone user loyalty twice that of Android
Mon, Nov 29, 2010 - A new survey by German market research firm GfK Group indicates that most smartphone users feel little loyalty to their device outside of Apple's iPhone, which commands more than twice the fidelity of Android devices or smartphones in general. ( 40 comments )
Nokia unveils N8 smartphone, chairman to leave in 2012
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 - Nokia released the long-awaited N8 smartphone running Symbian^3 at the Nokia World event Tuesday amid news of the 2012 departure of its chairman. ( 66 comments )
Apple projected to ship 130M iOS devices in 2014 as Android hits 259M
Fri, Sep 10, 2010 - Apple is projected to sell 130 million iOS-based mobile devices per year by 2014, but both Google Android and Nokia Symbian are expected to each double that amount, according to Gartner. ( 248 comments )
56% of developers support Apple's iOS, 90% are single-platform
Fri, Jun 18, 2010 - The iOS mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad remains the dominant platform for developers, most of which write exclusively for Apple's devices. ( 97 comments )
Apple to launch new Find My Phone app, MobileMe updates
Thu, Jun 17, 2010 - Apple's MobileMe site is reporting that the system will undergo scheduled maintenance from 10PM PDT to Midnight tonight, Thursday June 17. The site is expected to reopen tomorrow with a finalized Mail update (now in beta), other interface improvements, and alongside a new iOS app that exposes "Find My iPhone" functions for the company's mobile users. ( 37 comments )
Apple's iPhone market share three times greater than Android in US
Sun, Jun 6, 2010 - A new survey of U.S. smartphone owners found that 28 percent use a device running the iPhone OS, compared with just 9 percent on Google's Android mobile operating system. ( 266 comments )
Apple iPhone Web marketshare outgrows Google Android in May
Tue, Jun 1, 2010 - Despite a larger variety of devices running the Google Android operating system available on the market, Apple's iPhone operating system still outgained its rival in terms of Web presence in the month of May. ( 61 comments )
February mobile device traffic up 193%, led by Apple iPhone
Thu, Mar 25, 2010 - Fueled by strong growth of both the iPhone and Android platforms and heavy application use on both mobile devices, mobile traffic increased 193 percent year-over-year in February. ( 55 comments )
Gartner: Apple's iPhone was No. 3 worldwide smartphone in 2009
Tue, Feb 23, 2010 - After more than doubling its total sales from a year prior, the iPhone platform was catapulted into third place in global smartphone sales in 2009, with Apple shipping 24.9 million handsets. ( 52 comments )
Multi-phone Android platform seen overtaking iPhone by 2012
Thu, Oct 8, 2009 - Due to its presence on multiple manufacturers' devices, Android will overtake Apple's iPhone in terms of market share by 2012, an analyst has predicted. ( 145 comments )
Flash coming to most smartphones, but not Apple's iPhone
Mon, Oct 5, 2009 - Adobe on Monday announced partnerships with numerous handset operating system makers, including Research in Motion, Nokia, Palm, Google and Microsoft, to bring Flash Player 10.1 to smartphones. Absent from the list: Apple. ( 224 comments )
Nokia hopes to fight off Apple iPhone gains with Linux
Wed, Aug 26, 2009 - Even though Nokia's Symbian mobile operating system commands the lion's share of the worldwide smartphone market, the world's largest handset maker is looking to Linux to take on the iPhone. ( 84 comments )
Apple leads international smartphone market growth
Wed, Aug 12, 2009 - Sales of iPhones increased more than sixfold during the second quarter of 2009, helping Apple maintain its ranking as the third largest smartphone maker worldwide, according to a new report. ( 40 comments )
End users, developers seen flocking to iPhone apps on wide scale
Tue, Apr 21, 2009 - A mobile analytics firm has published new findings which show the iPhone taking the majority of the app market -- especially when it comes to the sheer number of users. ( 49 comments )
Apple iPhone controls over 66% of all mobile web use
Sun, Mar 1, 2009 - In its first detailed look at web market share for cellphones, a research firm has found that Apple's iPhone represents a staggering 66.61 percent of mobile traffic while its competitors have only just gained a foothold. ( 59 comments )
Hacking contest to test iPhone's security
Thu, Feb 26, 2009 - After being humbled last year at the high-profile CanSecWest security conference, Apple faces further scrutiny as the same event organizers not only plan to test the Mac's defenses but, for the first time, the iPhone's as well. ( 34 comments )
Apple rumored allowing real background apps on iPhone
Tue, Feb 3, 2009 - After leaving its once-touted background push data feature by the wayside, Apple is now reportedly mulling an option that would let iPhone apps run third-party background processes and give the phone true app multitasking. ( 74 comments )
Nokia leans on new N97 as best hope for an iPhone rival
Tue, Dec 2, 2008 - At a special event in Spain, Nokia has revealed the N97, which is just the second touchscreen phone in company history -- and potentially the company's one real chance at reversing market share losses to Apple's iPhone. ( 130 comments )
iPhone tops business rankings, steals Nokia market share
Thu, Nov 6, 2008 - Often labeled the outsider in the corporate world, Apple's iPhone has already reached the top of J.D. Power's satisfaction ranks for business smartphones -- and is simultaneously the second-largest smartphone maker in the world. ( 131 comments )
Nokia answers iPhone's blows with its first touchscreen phone
Thu, Oct 2, 2008 - After more than a year without a direct competitor to the iPhone, Nokia on Thursday fired back with a phone that it hopes will better Apple's now widespread device -- albeit with a delayed launch and a few other catches. ( 142 comments )
Apple tackles iPhone background app limits with push service
Mon, Jun 9, 2008 - Addressing one of the most outstanding complaints regarding feature limitations in third-party iPhone applications, Apple on Monday said it has developed a push notification service that will feed programs with data even when technically shut down. ( 57 comments )
