The smartphone market is growing 50% per year already, so growing sales by 50% means running to stand still.
Projecting 50% growth is actually admitting to a slowing in growth, because growth the previous year (2006-2007) was 90%, and they are projecting growth for this year past (2007-2008) of 80%.
Having said that the spectacular iPhone sold 4 million in 6 months, so about 8 million in a year, and only project to sell 10 million this year, so they themselves are only projecting 20% growth.
Alternatively, Apple sold about 6-7 million iPhones over the same 12 months (June 2007-June 2008) that MS is selling 20+ million Windows Mobile phones.
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The smartphone market is growing 50% per year already, so growing sales by 50% means running to stand still.
Projecting 50% growth is actually admitting to a slowing in growth, because growth the previous year (2006-2007) was 90%, and they are projecting growth for this year past (2007-2008) of 80%.
Having said that the spectacular iPhone sold 4 million in 6 months, so about 8 million in a year, and only project to sell 10 million this year, so they themselves are only projecting 20% growth.
Alternatively, Apple sold about 6-7 million iPhones over the same 12 months (June 2007-June 2008) that MS is selling 20+ million Windows Mobile phones.