I found Nolan Killeen’s post on the new Google android phone very interesting and shows how dominant companies with almost all of the market share can still be in jeopardy of losing popularity.
Throughout my high school days and even now the only two phones that people have been remotely interested in were as follows: A Blackberry or an Iphone. Now all of a sudden with the huge problems RIM has been having with bringing in an entirely new system and with the let down apple brought upon its customers after releasing the “Iphone 4s” instead of a much awaited Iphone 5, the android market has been taking complete advantage of the situation. These failures combined with the release of the new “Google” android phone which offers all of the fancy features included with the Blackberry or Iphone have created a very promising gain for the less hyped part of the market. Suddenly now Google inc controls a whopping 52.5% of the mobile phone market from just 25% previously.
In my opinion, Apple and RIM had it coming. I believe that the two giants simply thought that they were untouchable behind their incredibly popular products, but now have realized that this may no longer be the case!
