Mike Temporale
05-03-2004, 05:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO200405038640.html' target='_blank'>http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO200405038640.html</a><br /><br /></div>Last week we told you about market forecasts predicting <a href="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=37942">Symbian will be the market leader until 2010</a>, and this week we bring market forecasts predicting open OSs will account for 89 million units by 2008.<br /><br /><div class="quote"> <span class="quote">Quote:</span> Shipments of devices powered by third party open OSs will grow from 9.8 million units in 2003 to reach over 89 million units in 2008. </div><br /><br />That's a growth rate of 808% for Open OSs. Over the same amount of time they predict proprietary OSs will grow by 514%(from 102 Million to 627 Million Units). Take from this what you want. I think we can all agree that nobody can accurately predict the future.