47 The Hockey Stick
As Samsung and other manufacturers started selling their own Android-based devices worldwide, the uptick in sales that started with the Droid increased dramatically and continuously.
When the Droid launched, in late 2009, Android was comfortably at the bottom of the heap of smartphone platforms. By the end of 2010, just over one year later, Android devices were outselling all of them except Nokia’s Symbian OS, and they passed Symbian as well in the following year.
At the same time, people were increasingly choosing smartphones over feature phones,1 the traditional low-end (and larger) portion of the mobile market, and ...
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