The most important infographic is missing here : the one that shows total profits from phones. It’s basically the only one that matters, as it will show that a 2% global market share, executed right, can make you a parctically unassailable market leader.

Or put differently, there are a lot of people making a lot phones that are not particularly valuable to their customers – or to themselves.

World smartphone market share per OS is BS You should study a bit WORLD MARKET.. that current picture might be in US but not even close the world status Symbian have even there over 35%

And how Apple can have even 2% of global Mobile phone markets since they have only iPhone and that is categorized as Smartphone

If you look at phones that people buy, as opposed to having supplied, you will find that RIM’s market share dips. If you look at phones at Apple’s price point, then you find that a lot of the android phones are brought at a cheaper alternative.

the US smartphone sales record isnt really vaild as Blackberry have 4 models and at that time iPhone had 2 models, compared with HTC having about 10 models. Divide the share by the number of models and you will see the market share dramaticl shift.