Apple and Nokia not agree on the definition of "mobile device" Tweet

Head of social media communications company Nokia Skvayres Mark (Mark Squires) was unhappy with the statement of Steve Jobs that Apple is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile devices. Such a statement was read at Jobs' presentation planshetnika Apple iPad. Manual Nokia with similar allegations categorically disagrees and is ready to prove them wrong on the basis of documents, including information directly from Apple.

Discrepancy in the definition of who is bigger than Apple or Nokia has happened because of the different approaches to the concept of "mobile device". In the view of Jobs and Apple in particular, in general, "mobile" should be considered as any device that you can take with you. Ie MacBook computers are also a mobile device. Nokia defines as a more "traditional" - it is only mobile phones and smartphones. Notebooks - is a computer technique. So it turns out that the number of "mobile" set at the market - different. Nokia last quarter of 2009, has sold nearly 127 million phones, while Apple sold 8.7 million iPhone. But by the number of "apples" are added another 21 million iPod and 3.36 million Mac, which gives the total revenue from sales (including the new counting rules) to $ 15.68 billion (7.25 billion euros).

However, in this case, Apple's position is somewhat perplexing, since the rate of Nokia over the same period amounted to € 8,18 billion.

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