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#Apple #iPhone 14.5 percent global smartphone marketshare, 79% of global smartphone profits in 2016. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170308000345
#Apple and #Samsung are still making money from smartphones after nearly 9 years. How long can others survive for? http://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple-iphone-grabs-104-of-smartphone-industry-profit-in-q3/
#Skype supposed to replace Windows Live Messenger. Don’t think #Microsoft has grown it’s IM market share since. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0%2F4e619fbc-7c58-11e6-ae24-f193b105145e.html
It took #Android #Marshmello (Android 6.x) 15 months to get to 18.7% installed base. #iOS10 easily passed that in just 2 days.
#Nokia is a strong brand in mobile. But is it enough to take grab sizeable market share in 1-3 or even 3-5 years? http://www.androidauthority.com/new-nokia-smartphones-confirmed-q4-2016-710592/
#AppleMusic had 15m paid subscribers less than #Spotify back in June. #EE added 14m subscribers in 2015. Go figure. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/08/25/ee-launches-first-uk-mobile-phone-contract-bundled-with-apple-mu/
#Android and #iOS grabs 99% of #smartphone market share. But I still won’t bet against #Microsoft just yet. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3415117
800 #Apple engineers are working hard to extend its lead on having most widely used camera. https://www.flickr.com/cameras https://x.com/CNET/status/762589170862792704
#iPad has 84% share of tablets priced above $200. Interesting. But 0% share of tablets under $200.
Apple might be the biggest by market capital, but hard to call them a monopoly. Nearly 90% chose to use Android! https://x.com/bjoern2000/status/748990937867571200
#Tesla did a great job with new #Model3 receiving over 400,000 orders so far. Global car sales in 2015, 82.8 million. That’s around 0.5%.
#Alphabet is now bigger than #Apple. #Google is still the main profit driver, but good to know other units are losing less money now.