With everything that’s been happening with RIM in the past little while, I thought this infographic was kind of cool. It was put together by the folks at Geekaphone and used with permission.
∞ A history of RIM infographic
With everything that’s been happening with RIM in the past little while, I thought this infographic was kind of cool. It was put together by the folks at Geekaphone and used with permission.
The striking thing about that graph is Android’s marketshare growth – it’s completely at the expense of Nokia & Windows.
During those two years, BlackBerry’s share has remained flat, and iOS has almost doubled.
Continued on that same trajectory, it looks like this will end up as a two horse race. I can see why Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up. They’ll either both die together, or re-emerge as a credible player.
It would be interesting to see the same graph, but representing profit share. Having the lion’s share of profit enables a company to re-invest efforts back into their platform. (Having the lion’s share of profit, whilst having no credible competition however, tends to encourage the opposite)
The striking thing about that graph is Android’s marketshare growth – it’s completely at the expense of Nokia & Windows.
During those two years, BlackBerry’s share has remained flat, and iOS has almost doubled.
Continued on that same trajectory, it looks like this will end up as a two horse race. I can see why Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up. They’ll either both die together, or re-emerge as a credible player.
It would be interesting to see the same graph, but representing profit share. Having the lion’s share of profit enables a company to re-invest efforts back into their platform. (Having the lion’s share of profit, whilst having no credible competition however, tends to encourage the opposite)
Yes in time of peace prepare for war and in time of war prepare for peace.
Small correction on Mike Lazaridis: Turkey-born, Greek immigrant to Canada