Tositek » RIM http://tositek.com Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:05:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Android Breaks 50,000 Apps, Where Are The Others? http://tositek.com/2010/android-breaks-50000-apps-where-are-the-others/ http://tositek.com/2010/android-breaks-50000-apps-where-are-the-others/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:37:51 +0000 Tositek http://tositek.com/?p=1590 Google’s Android broke 50,000 apps in April 2010. While this is only a quarter of the apps Apple has with approx 200,000, it sure makes these two platforms the leaders. When looking at the smartphone market leader RIM Blackberry who only has approx 6500 apps and then last decades leader Palm with only 2000 apps. We can see who the new giants will be. Of course having even 100 apps on your smartphone seems overkill, but it sure is crazy cool to look through 1000s of apps. These new computer platforms are the new laptops just in miniature form.

When we look at the market share, RIM Blackberry owns 44%* of the U.S. smartphone market making them the leader in the US (Nokia is #1 in the world market). Apple only has a 19% share, Motorola 13%, HTC 12%, while Palm is down at 5%. This should be interesting to see how it plays out.

Apple's iPhone and Google Android, where is the Palm and Blackberry?

Even though the Blackberry sold 10.5 million to Apple’s 8 million units within the last four months. Apple is crushing RIM in app downloads, with Apple being at about 15 million daily downloads to RIM’s 1 million.

Either RIM needs to make big changes quickly or look to Android as there new operating system. If not, RIM at this time next year will be taking a nose dive while Apple and Android powered phones will take the lead.

My recommendation if you are looking for a new cell phone is first look at Apple’s iPhone and make it your benchmark, then cell phones running open-source Android, just because of the vast amount of apps that are available. Features were nice but large amounts of small apps are today’s game changer.

So where is Microsoft in this? Surely they should have been fighting for a piece of this pie.

*Research In Motion took to the stage at its Wireless Enterprise Symposium event to share information about the company. The company threw out a lot of numbers. Most of the RIM numbers came from that event.

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