On: The iPhone 1.0 critics -- where are they now?

[DenisM]

Microsoft is selling 20 million devices/year with about 100% YOY growth if memory serves.

Apple is at 6 million/year, no YOY numbers yet.

Symbian is selling about 140 million devices/year.

The numbers are not to be directly compared if you care about "smart" part of the "smartphone" - most Symbian users are not using any smart features, whereas many of Microsoft users do and so does practically every single Apple user.

[vizard → DenisM]

Aah thanks. The claims and graphs by various vendors can be very difficult to make sense of sometimes.

[jodrellblank → DenisM]

Windows Mobile and Symbian cover a lot of devices and many years of brand building and development - Apple has one phone, 12 months of sales.

For them to get it so right that it competes even slightly impresses me.