Check out the article here:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...figures_no.php

Looks like all the Symbian bashing wasn't justified... or is "it" supposted to happen in the future? I admit that the year 2010 will be a tough one for Symbian, at least the beginning of the year without a hardware accelerated UI in Symbian^2. But thing will only be better afterwards... it looks like Symbian will stabilize itself around the 30 % mark, if not more.

The mid-end smartphones will most likely be completely dominated by Symbian, while the high-end ones will see other alternative OS (with the exceptions of Omnia HD and Satio). It's still unclear whether Nokia will aim to market Symbian as a low-to-mid-end only OS, as their device line-up has indicated (unlike Samsung and Sony Ericsson, whom might as well drop Symbian anytime soon). However, if that's the case, then there'll be some place on the market for Maemo for sure.

As predicted earlier, Maemo will most likely gain market share towards the 5 % by the end of 2012, while Symbian will remain dominant overall (not considering the price of the devices). It will certainly be interesting to see whether Maemo ever becomes a direct competitor to Symbian, which might be the case in 2011 with the launch of the fully Qt-supported Symbian^4.


As for other OS, nothing really unexpected happened, apart from the decline of "other OS" (which doesn't count the other big boys):

- Symbian remains dominant at more than 46 % share
- RIM (Blackberry) remains at a distant second place with a 20 % share
- Apple's (Iphone) 17 % share remains unchanged, the success of the platform has satured
- Microsoft (WinMo) sees a huge decline to a narrow 8 % share
- Google (Android) passes the 3 % mark for the first time
- Others' (WebOS, LiMo etc.) share almost halves to 13 %