From this thread - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2586715/posts
Which is about how Android is going to gain market share at the expense of others.
Symbian 30.2
Android 29.6
Research In Motion 11.7
iOS 14.9
Windows Phone 3.9
Other 9.6
"GOING TO GAIN" is pie in the sky in the future. A prediction is nose picking, nothing more.
I found it interesting that the chart shows the iPhone taking a decided 25% nosedive on the chart from the date of the report—which the private release to the client closely coincided with the release of the iPhone 4—as though some event occurred on that date that would impact the quality or salability of the iPhone to a far greater degree than other phones. Nothing could be further from the truth—it's not based on evidence or fact—it is mere wishful thinking, apparently placed there to please the purchaser of the study. Such "predictive" turns based on nothing historical are ALWAYS twaddle; there is NO justification for their inclusion except bias. That makes the quality of the entire report suspect.
The actual study said that Android's greatest gains would come in the low-end, commodity "feature phone" market where Nokia's Symbian would lose big unless Nokia could step up it's game.
The study also ignores a recent survey of Verizon customers that found that better than 60% of its smartphone customers would dump their current smartphones in favor of an iPhone as soon as their contracts expired if Verizon offered the Apple product over an Android offering. Similar surveys have shown similar results on Sprint and T-Mobile...