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Windows Phone Market Share Sinks Below 1 Percent (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the dead-platform,-shattered-dreams dept.

Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge: Worldwide smartphone sales increased by nearly 4 percent in the recent quarter, but Microsoft's Windows Phone OS failed to capitalize on the growth and dropped below 1 percent market share. Gartner's latest smartphone sales report provides the latest proof of the obvious: Windows Phone is dead. Gartner estimates that nearly 2.4 million Windows Phones were sold in the latest quarter, around 0.7 percent market share overall. That's a decrease from the 2.5 percent market share of Windows Phone back in Q1 2015.

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  1. You mean Windows phones are rare as unicorns? by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, now I want one.

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    1. Re:You mean Windows phones are rare as unicorns? by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

      Watch. And then decide if you really want one.

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    2. Re:You mean Windows phones are rare as unicorns? by NotDrWho · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's just say that Clippy is hot shit right now in all the hidden coffee/hookah clubs in north Tacoma.

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  2. YO by blackomegax · · Score: 3, Funny

    2016 is the year of Windows Mobile! Let's make this thing happen!

    1. Re:YO by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 4, Funny

      No problem, I just threw it across the room. It was very mobile for a few seconds, then it crashed. Windows Mobile died as it lived.

  3. Re:Ass-rape by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd rather be ass-raped with a dildo covered in fish hooks than use Windows on my phone.

    I admire your resolve. But given a choice between the two, Windows phone sounds pretty good to me.

  4. Re:Ass-rape by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd rather be ass-raped with a dildo covered in fish hooks than use Windows on my phone.

    I admire your resolve. But given a choice between the two, Windows phone sounds pretty good to me.

    the dildo won't send your credit card info to hackers

    you can cancel your credit card. if you cancel your asshole you have to shit in a bag

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  5. Re:2+ million does not seem like dead... by StormReaver · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe this will be the year of Windows on mobile.

  6. Re:Me too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not.