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Windows Phone Actually Gaining Market Share In Some Countries
Nerval's Lobster writes "Last week, research firm IDC issued a report suggesting that Windows Phone shipments exceeded those of the iPhone in seven countries around the world, including Argentina, India, Poland, and Russia. The data startled some people — Daring Fireball's John Gruber, for example, blogged his skepticism. As the story gained a bit more momentum, The New York Times' Nick Wingfield reached out to IDC analyst Kevin Restivo for a bit more clarification: 'IDC's numbers also reflect only the official number of cellphones imported into the countries,' he wrote. 'Mr. Restivo said that in some countries, like Argentina, high government taxes mean there is a very significant gray market in cellphones, which IDC doesn't track.' Now new survey data from Kantar Worldpanel uggests that Windows Phone is indeed gaining some sort of momentum in some parts of the world: Android was responsible for 51.2 percent of smartphone sales in the U.S. for the quarter ended February 2013, followed in second by Apple's iOS with 43.5 percent, with Windows Phone edging up into third place with 4.1 percent. BlackBerry trailed in fourth with 0.7 percent, down significantly from its 3.6 percent market-share last year. That doesn't mean that Windows Phone will prove any sort of champion in the near term, but maybe the platform isn't totally on life support."
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Nerval's Lobster writes
"Last week, research firm IDC issued a report suggesting that Windows Phone shipments exceeded those of the iPhone in seven countries around the world, including Argentina, India, Poland, and Russia. The data startled some people Daring Fireball's John Gruber, for example, blogged his skepticism. As the story gained a bit more momentum, The New York Times' Nick Wingfield reached out to IDC analyst Kevin Restivo for a bit more clarification: 'IDC's numbers also reflect only the official number of cellphones imported into the countries,' he wrote. 'Mr. Restivo said that in some countries, like Argentina, high government taxes mean there is a very significant gray market in cellphones, which IDC doesn't track.' Now new survey data from Kantar Worldpanel suggests that Windows Phone is indeed gaining some sort of momentum in some parts of the world: Android was responsible for 51.2 percent of smartphone sales in the U.S. for the quarter ended February 2013, followed in second by Apple's iOS with 43.5 percent, with Windows Phone edging up into third place with 4.1 percent. BlackBerry trailed in fourth with 0.7 percent, down significantly from its 3.6 percent market-share last year. That doesn't mean that Windows Phone will prove any sort of champion in the near term, but maybe the platform isn't totally on life support."
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Am I the only one that's just waiting for MS to get nailed in some sort of accounting scandal and that we find out that millions of Windows Mobile Phones are sitting in a warehouse somewhere?
It's unlikely either iOS or Windows Phone will ever attain android levels of adoption--however, I remember working on Android marketing for the first couple years and sales were pretty sad then too. Maybe it's because Windows Phone finally has Chase, United and official pandora apps but it feels like it might have finally hit the app threshold to be taken seriously in the last few weeks.
Seeing as BB10 has all of Android's apps it might be able to leapfrog Windows Phone's "lost year" but now they're back where WP was at the beginning of last year. So even if they are a year ahead of where Windows Phone *was* they'll still be behind (just like Windows Phone is behind Android).
Regardless of whether or not Windows Phone is a success--it was a necessary effort on MS' fault. It laid the groundwork for all of their Windows strategy. If nothing else it is functioning well as a large R&D effort to make Windows 9 a run-anywhere OS. Windows 8 is already slowly displacing Windows phone. W8 is the kernel, W8 is driving the app framework now... undoubtedly by W9 both the phone and PC will be the same OS through and through.
In the long run the question will be whether or not a Tablet/Phone OS (android) can scale up to handle PC duties better than a PC OS (Windows) can scale down to handle phone duties. Windows Phone 8 as a proof of concept has already proven it's possible. But we don't have a desktop android to compare it to. But like I said, one way or another a single OS is the direction everything is headed. And if Microsoft didn't invest in Windows Phone, windows would ultimately die. Market share in the mobile phone device is IMO secondary to this goal. Meanwhile Apple still has to go through this painful transition at some point in the future.
Argentina has a ban on foreign assembled electronics (need to do the final assembly in the local, government friend's factories instead). As Apple didn't get into this, so you actually won't iPhones for sale at all. On the other hand, I recently saw *one* Nokia Lumia in the wild, but I don't think they are doing really well either.
Year of the Windows Phone!
I know that it's April 1st, but can we make these articles at least a LITTLE believable? That's the whole point in getting the "... gotcha!" at the end.
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Am I the only one that's just waiting for MS to get nailed in some sort of accounting scandal and that we find out that millions of Windows Mobile Phones are sitting in a warehouse somewhere?
Yeah, apparently.
I have better things to worry about than MS' accounting practices.
Nokiastan...and where else?
coding is life
... it's not going to LOSE market share is it? You can't really lose much from 1%
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
> millions of Windows Mobile Phones are sitting in a warehouse somewhere?
or reflashed to Android. Don't laugh. The Htc Touch HD ended up being one of the best Android phones, ever... and firmly convinced most of Microsoft's remaining mobile developer ecosystem to say "Fuck Microsoft" after their flagship phone with 16 months left on-contract was cruelly & prematurely EOL'ed for the crime of having 4 hardkeys instead of 3. Yes, read that again. It had 4, and some tool @ Microsoft decided to officially shun it because Windows Phone devices were required to have exactly 3 buttons.
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glad to see you at least got marked down for this garbage. MS are one of the few big companies with a clean record when it comes to accounting practises. Not that it is even relevant since they DON'T SELL PHONES. nokia, Samsung, HTC et al sell them and they are the ones that announce numbers.
While your 'Clint Toris' effort seemed a labia of love, the demons of pubis opinion are coming down hard on such vaginyrations these days.
Imagine if Apple accidentally released a product featuring one additional buttons.
Or is it just 04/01?
Nokia made big inroads into the cell-phone market because their products were easy to use. Microsoft teamed up with Nokia with the view of entering the marked with a Microsoft powered device. This is the result.
Speaking to the people who own a Windows phone, they are very happy with it. People are familiar with Windows and Nokia's reputation for useability has probably paid dividends.
Not all of the users of cell-phones are the younger generation who easily adapt to a complicated device.
slashdot... idk what to say, im not even mad at you... im just so extremely disappointed in you.
Was it done by Steve Balmer or done to Steve Balmer? That is the question.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
If it was gaining in Botswana, Outer Mongolia or Paraguay it might have been believable. Nah.
Oh, yeah! Wise guy, huh? Woob woob woob woob! Nyuk! Nyuk!
Actually, yes.
About a week ago, I was riding an elevator with someone who was using a Windows Phone. I was tempted to ask him about it...
Ask him what?
I had done a submission a week back - http://slashdot.org/submission/2570591/idc-predicts-windows-phone-to-be-the-fastest-growing-platform
Microsoft is NEVER clean.
SEC probes Microsoft's accounting methods
http://news.cnet.com/SEC-probes-Microsofts-accounting-methods/2100-1001_3-227883.html
Microsoft Agrees To Refrain From Accounting Violations in SEC Settlement
http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18819490/microsoft-agrees-to-refrain-from-accounting-violations-in-sec-settlement.htm
It will require a major OS update, since neither OSX nor iOS are currently capable of handling the plural of "button" without segfaulting.
I live in Europe, and I've yet to see a single Windows Phone here. In Stockholm, the big 3 seem to be iPhone, Samsung, HTC.
And some Nokias, but nearly as many as you'd think, given that the company's home base is next door in Finland.
Samsung and HTC both make windows phones. They are simply not as popular as there android equivalents.
3 phones against several dozen, less than 10% apart in sales. No they'll never quite be 'android levels of adoption'... are you Tupe666 in disguise?
Ironically in the sense of this article Apple have *one* phone so its not an excuse [Although they desperately need an iphone nano/mini]. HTC are having difficulty competing right now, and one of the reasons was too many models not enough differentiation.
It's funny how people are quick to make fun of Windows Phone. It's like they don't realize that Windows Phone has market share that is 3-4 times larger than desktop Linux's market share.
Its not funny, its depressing. Linux occupys about 75% of the phone market compared to Microsoft 2.6% [Less if we count incompatible OS] at the cost of Nokia/Microsoft represent market shares of 25%/10% highs before their merger [self mutilation].
It shows how well Linux shines compared to Microsoft when Microsoft it unable to use its Oppressive Microsoft Monopoly [or simply by being one] can successfully restrict competition. When you see Microsoft complaining [and throwing Billions at the problem] it can't get market share by not being able to access first party Google apps; not getting carriers to sell its product. Its kind or ironic. The fact that its not a good product just an aside
Linux on the Desktop continues to grow, nobody is noticing, because the Desktop is not sexy right now, both to the shame of Apple and Microsoft, but funny never...I feel for those Nokia employees, that have been sacrificed for this White Elephant.
I'm sure its gaining market share in the US .. around the Redmond area .. I recently had the fortune of evaluating a friends windows phone .. and as soon as I started using it I knew it was Micro$oft . I doubt any other product / service has such a strong identity ..
"Ecosystem" *tick* *Developer tools+.net" *tick* "Reader and iGoogle" *tick* "open source...no driver support" *tick*.
Spread your propaganda in other peoples posts, rather than waste my time.
that is hardly on par with what other firms were doing, it wasn't even considered fraud, They were putting aside additional profits for future booking, not making up sales that never happened like many firms did. It was consider poor practise than could be misleading hence why the SEC took action for them to stop.
"Am I the only one that's just waiting for MS to get nailed in some sort of accounting scandal and that we find out that millions of Windows Mobile Phones are sitting in a warehouse somewhere?"
Warehouse? I bought them for Google an dropped them in the deep sea so that nobody can buy apps with them.
Got you beat, I've seen two!
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Apparently you have never used OSX