Symbian boasts about its market share and laughs out Windows Mobile and Microsoft

One image tells more than thousand words, so Symbian has painted an image on the basis of market data from Canalys:

Lies, damned lies and Symbian market share charts? Yes, market share numbers look good for Symbian, but...

... but Symbian is not saying that over 80% of Symbian phones sold are from Nokia and that over 90% of new Symbian models are from Nokia. In other words licensing Symbian doesn't make sense for other manufacturers not only because Nokia owns 50% of Symbian and thus most money goes to their main competitor, but also because they must compete with Nokia in the same area in which Nokia has insider information and practially controlling power over Symbian, that de-facto is just a puppet of Nokia.

Furthermore within Symbian camp fragmentation is big with incompatible sub-platforms UIQ and S60 competing with each other.

If Symbian really would be what it claims to be - independent and fair to evreybody provider of smartphone operating system - then Symbian would be floated on stock markets as Psion wanted it once, but what was blocked by greedy incompetent cruel evil managers of Nokia.

Boasting of Symbian has no end and despite not being compatible with anything else (like Windows Mobile is with desktop Windows, or Mobile Linux is with server Linux), Symbian claims to set standards:

Symbian OS sets the standards

Symbian OS remains a worldwide market leader in smartphone operating systems, well ahead of its competitors Linux, Microsoft, RIM and PalmSource, both in terms of sales and market share. Symbian is growing consistently with the smartphone market as it is consolidating its position in this market and moving into the midrange.

To read more about Symbian's boasting click here (PDF file).

Finally if Symbian is doing so well, then why owners of enthusiast websites with ''symbian'' in name are accepting publicly bribes from Microsoft in form of accepting invitations from Microsoft to Mobius conference, where they get their intercontinental traveling, 5 star hotel stay and a bag of free gifts - all for free founded by Microsoft. If Symbian would be doing REALLY so well, then clearly these people woudln't have to accept bribes from Microsoft, but they do. If Microsoft pays them for intercontintal air travel, hotel stay and free gifts, then Symbian must be completely blind not to consider it as bribery. Dubious moral stance of these Symbian ''enthusiasts'' reflects also very well dubious moral stance of the Symbian itself: offering operating system to license takers, and forcing them at the same time to pay money to their main competitors, to compete with them in the same area.
10/20/2006 12:01:34 PM
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