IDC predicts Symbian will continue to dominate through 2014
IDC issued their latest smartphone projections ranging from 2010 to 2014 and the good news for Nokia is that even four years from now analysts see Symbian dominating the market with 32.9%. This is a drop of 18% from the current reported 40% market share, but keep in mind these are just projections and as the new Symbian OS develops through Symbian^4 and on we may see Symbian market share increase rather than decrease. Interestingly, they project Apple’s iOS to drop 25.8% to just 10.9% of the worldwide market share.
The projections show RIM BlackBerry holding pretty steady, Android continuing to rise, and Windows Mobile getting back into the game a bit with their Windows Phone 7 operating system.
After testing out just about every mobile operating system over the past few years for my ZDNet gig, I have to say I still prefer offerings from Nokia for the most part. It is so refreshing to have devices with no US carrier crapware loaded on them and still have excellent reception, customizability, and most all of the apps and services I need to conduct my daily business.
As I have been saying for years, the smartphone world is still quite small and there will be many players competing for customers in the future. While the projections show Symbian going down quite a bit, I think Symbian and MeeGo are too early to predict until we see more details of both mobile operating systems.
1 Comment to IDC predicts Symbian will continue to dominate through 2014
[...] bien complicado, en un momento complejo de la empresa, que mantiene su dominio en los mercados (y según IDC lo hará hasta 2014 como mínimo) pero ya no es vista como atractiva. No creo que su prioridad #1 sea lograr tener un GRAN equipo [...]
September 10, 2010