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To: PugetSoundSoldier
Android has gone from non-player to a strong 4th place in just 2 years...;)

Your own chart shows Android in 6th place. Interesting how you describe Android's 7M behind Apple's 25M as "strong" while you describe Apple's 25M behind RIM's 34M as "distant."

The iPhone is a good device, but it's only moderately successful when you look at the Smartphone market.

Non-player to over a quarter of the market in three years cannot be honestly called only moderately successful. Android had the advantage of leveraging existing hardware OEMs (with brand names well-known in phones), sales channels, contracts, and business relationships. Apple started from scratch.

However, 50 million phones would be a good MONTH for Nokia.

You keep flipping back and forth between the smart phone and general phone markets.

133 posted on 07/07/2010 9:26:20 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat; PugetSoundSoldier
You keep flipping back and forth between the smart phone and general phone markets.

It's an old debating technique called "muddying the waters" or more technically "obfuscation." Puget does it frequently.

143 posted on 07/07/2010 6:10:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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