It may be sporting a pretty competitive tablet OS but all consumers are going to see is

Introducing some thing that looks like an iPad, does the same stuff as the iPad but costs $100 more than an iPad.

People may argue “but it has higher specs, 3G LTE, etc etc”. No consumer cares about what gigahertz are in the thing, all they care about is whether it can do “The Facebook” and play those cool games like “Angry Birds”.



Also what do mean by fully Flash enabled (ASTERISK)? If by that you mean that Adobe is still working on a good version of Flash for tablets, then you lied it isn’t fully Flash enabled. It’s Flash ready, just like my care is not Spoiler enabled but Spoiler ready.

So here’s what IDC is predicting the smartphone market will look like in 2015.

Basically IDC is assuming

• Windows Phone will just take the place of Symbian because of the Nokia deal. Assuming that the Nokia brand is so strong that it demands loyalty and Nokia will continue being one of the very few players that can manufacture cheap smartphones that people will flock too.
• That assumes Nokia is the only one capable of getting processor intensive Windows Phone to run on dirt cheap hardware.
• BlackBerry who seems to be pretty much dead in terms mindshare amongst consumers in 2011, either is able to keep on limping long enough to have some market share in 2015 or has some ace up its sleave that IDC knows about.
• iOS will somehow slip more places that BlackBerry

I think the only thing they got right is that Android will be the dominate player, purely by saturating the makret and nothing else.

If I was a company using IDC for business intelligence, I’d start looking elsewhere.

IDC Press Release