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mobile market OS parts

Posted Dec 2, 2010 22:19 UTC (Thu) by Alterego (subscriber, #55989)
Parent article: Symbian Foundation web sites shutting down

It seems symbian loss will cause more trouble in southern countries :

Summary of market shares worldwide
http://www.ecrans.fr/local/cache-vignettes/L450xH509/mobi...

from http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-200911-20...

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mobile market OS parts

Posted Dec 4, 2010 18:53 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

Those statistics are skewed for a web perspective (they count web accesses from mobile phones).
Although the current trend is to have web enabled smartphones, we are still a long way for them to be common enough for those numbers to make sense as a global market indicator.