Apple: From Zero to 17.1 Percent Smartphone Share in 2.5 Years

"Lest there be any doubt that Apple’s iPhone is redefining the smartphone market, consider this: In less than two and a half years, the device has managed to claim nearly a fifth of the worldwide market for smartphones.

According to new data released this week by Gartner, Apple shipped some 7.04 million iPhones in the third quarter–up from just 4.72 million phones in the same period a year ago–for a 17.1 percent share of the market (see table below; click to enlarge)..."

from All Things Digital

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Comment: And yet, apparently, Blinkx don't think it's worth spending a few months knocking up a branded iPhone app to allow iPhone users to search for and consume video with their unlimited (for which read 'fair use') data allowances.

Or at least it would be a few months with a team of competent devs managed well. But since it took 18 months, apparently, to do the back-end for Democracy Live (and that may be unfair: the entire project took 18 months, I don't know what the technical delivery deadlines were like - but the tech stream would have been kicked off early on, I suspect), then who knows how long it might take Blinkx to develop an iPhone app? 85,000 other dev teams have managed it but not, apparently, Blinkx...