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Smartphone Update: 2008 Q4 Market Share

So Nokia has the widest range and the volume, but it's losing market share.

Apple has a single product, but is gaining market share.

And you're claiming Apple has to ape Nokia?

Well done.

Platform Plays and Players: Signs of a Shakeout?

"The problem is, of course, that if a single vendor owns the platform, then the micro-economy that grows off the back of it is entirely vulnerable to any decisions made by the platform owner."

And yet the logical conclusion of that supposition, open source platforms, is no panacea as I explain here:

Agora phone exposes Android's Achilles Heel
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Seeing an End to the iPod's Hegemony

"Microsoft has been hammering at Apple's door with Zune"

I don't know if you care, but MSFT sold 2 million Zunes compared to Apple's 150+ million. You call that "hammering at the door"?

I don't know if you remember, but Apple replaced the iPod mini, the then best-selling player in the world, with the iPod nano which quickly became best-selling player. You think Zune, one of the most spectacular CE flops of all time, is going to challenge Apple?

Do you care to cite a single instance of a digital subscription business as remotely popular and lucrative as the iTunes business?

Do you care at all that you cited Mr. Enderle as an "analyst" on Dell without disclosing the fact that he's paid by Dell as a consultant on this very project?

Finally, do you really have anything new to say?

Meet Chrome - Google's Windows Killer

Google Chrome as an OS? Unfortunately we have seen that movie some years ago. Remember the web-surfing appliances of yesteryear like Sony eVilla or 3Com Audrey and Kerbango? How about Compaq iPaq or Netpliance I-opener? Didn't think so:

Why Google Chrome is not a "Windows Killer"
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