Nokia’s new coming exec Stephen Elop’s task will be to monitor that the company’s Symbian OS won’t lose its market share, which has lead over the next four years. As Gartner has announced, Symbian will be on the first place in OS sale list in 2014.
According to Gartner’s forecasts, Symbian OS will share about 30.2% of the market while the Android’s segment will be 29.6% in 2014. It’s interesting that Windows Phone will share 3.9%, but there is some jealousy about this number considering the WP’s progress during the last years.
Nevertheless, to implement these forecasts there is a lot of work to be done and now we understand what has been the main goal of Elop’s movement from Microsoft to Nokia.
If we pay attention to iOS’s position on the market we’ll see that it may be on the peak with 17.1% market share during the next year. And the RIM’s position will decrease.
So it’s just a forecasting but it can become the main purpose of Elop’s activity.
