{"id":207570,"date":"2010-01-21T07:33:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2010-01-21T07:33:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:33:53","slug":"idc-android-sales-in-singapore-%e2%80%9ca-drop-in-the-bucket%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207570","title":{"rendered":"IDC: Android sales in Singapore \u201ca drop in the bucket\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12352\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12352\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/trashbin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"trashbin\" border=\"0\" alt=\"trashbin\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/trashbin_thumb.png\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> Demonstrating once again the disturbing gap between mind share and market share, Ms Melissa Chau, a market analyst with market-research firm IDC Asia-Pacific, <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.asiaone.com\/Digital\/Features\/Story\/A1Story20100121-193365.html\" >said at the Motorola Dext launch in Singapore<\/a>, that Android phone sales last year &quot;were a drop in the bucket&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>She added &quot;Sales weren&#8217;t even close to those of the iPhone and other smartphones, like Windows Mobile phones.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Shaker Amin, an industry analyst with Frost &amp; Sullivan, said that his firm estimates the sales of Android phones here to be less than 2 per cent of the mobile phone operating-system market share.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The market is still dominated by Symbian, which has a market share of well over 50 per cent, followed by Research In Motion and Windows Mobile,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Android OS smartphones have been much hyped in recent years, but so far have failed to set the world on fire, with even Google\u2019s \u2018superphone\u2019 the Nexus One, <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=12172\" >estimated to have sold only 20,000 units<\/a> in its opening week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=12328\" >Motorola has bet the company<\/a> on the success of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=12287\" >Google-sponsored operating system<\/a>, and expects to remain relevant with less than 5% global market share.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12352&amp;linkname=IDC%3A%20Android%20sales%20in%20Singapore%20%26ldquo%3Ba%20drop%20in%20the%20bucket%26rdquo%3B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrating once again the disturbing gap between mind share and market share, Ms Melissa Chau, a market analyst with market-research firm IDC Asia-Pacific, said at the Motorola Dext launch in Singapore, that Android phone sales last year &quot;were a drop in the bucket&quot;. She added &quot;Sales weren&#8217;t even close to those of the iPhone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}