Counterclockwise: the rise and fall of smartphone brands

15 October 2017
Nokia was the most popular phone maker in the year 2000 and barely there 10 years later.

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  • Kangal
  • uCX
  • 15 Oct 2017

It looks like 2012-2013 was the period with the most variety.
Nokia and Blackberry were just on the verge of dying, as newcomers Xiaomi, Huawei and OnePlus made a dent in the marketshare. If there's one thing to take away from this, the smartphone industry did have a revolution but this wasn't because of Apple.

It was actually from Google who crafted Android and Google's Mobile Services (especially in 2009 with Android 2.1) which allowed any OEM to get into the market with relative ease. It was essentially a case of Android versus Symbian, and we know how that turned out. I have a feeling Nokia could've done much much better had they announced Symbian 2.0 and instead used an open-source Linux backbone with the Qt-language, but addressed the issue of fragmentation that plagues the Android-ecosystem. They did have a decent HERE maps, Xpress Music and OVI Mobile services too. And to counter Gmail, Google and YouTube, they could've used Yahoo, Dailymotion/Vimeo and Wolfram/Yahoo.

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    • Jim
    • thw
    • 15 Oct 2017

    Xiaomi is the champ

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      • Kyo
      • X}%
      • 15 Oct 2017

      Wow xiaomi is quite big! unexpected.

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        • woomy
        • LXK
        • 15 Oct 2017

        wew

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