Top Handset Vendors Tighten Grip On Market
With all the talk of new, innovative handset makers coming onto the market, it seems that the big players aren't backing down. The top four players - Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Siemens - now own a larger percentage of the market than they did a year ago. Their share has been boosted from 68.6% at the end of 2001 to 73.6% today. Samsung grew the fastest of all four, while Nokia grew slowly - but had such a big lead already that they increased it. Motorola grew mainly through its low cost handsets.
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
