iPhone Still Winning Mindshare War
Sun, Feb 15th, 2009
The Palm Pre, Blackberry Storm/Bold, and Google G1 hype have made the smartphone market so noisy that everyone's forgotten about the iPhone (AAPL), right?
Nope.
Fortune's Philip Elmer-Dewitt looks at the smartphone mindshare war through the window of Google Trends. No question about who has been--and still is--winning this one:
Think of the jagged light blue line in the fever chart [above] as the bubble of hype that keeps Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone floating above of its competitors.
It’s a snapshot of a Google Trends chart comparing the number of times the word “iPhone” appears in a Google search request with the words “Palm” (PALM), Research in Motion’s (RIMM) “BlackBerry,” Microsoft’s (MSFT) “Windows Mobile” and Google’s (GOOG) “Android.”
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