Wandering Data

Here’s a graph of BlackBerry sales numbers (devices, new subscriptions, total subscriptions) pasted together from company quarterly announcements.    Next quarter will be interesting, what with the end of the financial world as we know it and all that. Meanwhile, according to Piper Jaffray as reported by CNBC, Apple may have sold 5 million iPhone 3G [...]

Another recent report is comes from IDC, on the US smartphone market. IDC report by device, which as I said in the previous post is not so interesting to us software types. But a few months ago they did give the New York Times some data broken down by OS and I have put that together with IDC’s [...]

A bit late to this, but last week Gartner reported on the global smartphone market, broken down by device manufacture and also by OS. Us software types care more about OS than manufacturer, so the chart below shows “Palm OS” devices, not Palm-supplied Windows Mobile devices. And that’s why people like Samsung and Motorola are not in [...]