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Published on 01-03-2011 02:05 AM
As we start the new year, we find a much different US market share position for the PDAPhone / Smartphone market than what we saw a year ago. At the beginning of 2010, Apple had a solid position having established the iPhone market and was gaining share, primarily at the expense of RIM, Microsoft, and Palm. At that time, Google had Android on its feet and it was starting to show rapid growth on a trajectory to overtake everyone eventually. And RIM, had a large traditional market that was being eroded by two competitors that they hadn't probably considered a few years earlier. But a year later, and we find the three in a near dead heat going into 2011.
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