Ah, the virtues of AdMob: this mobile web site advertising network provides analysts with extremely interesting reports once a month. Their latest report hits my inbox a few days ago, and contained the following, extremely interesting chart of top US handsets:
If we then look at the US handset manufacturer list below, we end up with a margin of 0.4% for all existing Palm OS, Windows Mobile and webOS devices:
From my point of view, the Pre most probably still hasn’t hit the 500kunit margin…
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But the Pre is only on a single carrier in the US at the moment, and it wasn’t even released in Canada for their global tally. Can’t exactly count a phone out that is in a comparatively limited market.
Look at the graph for sprint on page 10. Thats a pretty big chunk there. Its not iphone big, and apple has had all the steam from the ipod to help push their phones before it came out. Palm’s market wasn’t the same type of people before, but this phone would appeal to business, tech, and your average joe who like listening to music via pandora etc.
Also theres a -6.1% change in apple numbers, that seems kinda odd. I wonder how much of these numbers come from apps. The iPhone has tons of apps, and lots of them probably use these ads. The Pre I only know of one or two apps with ads in them, and no idea what kind of sites would bring stats exactly. If you go back before the Pre was out it was 2.5% but now its lower… There has to be a lot of people who ditched their Centros for the phone. Well we’ll see some data from Palm pretty soon, and once new markets get the phone it might pick up steam. As long as Palm earns enough to keep afloat and making new phones and improving WebOS I will be happy. They don’t have to be #1, just make a profit. The web is filled with people listening to dumb analysts who expected it to be an “iphone killer” as they call it.