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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. 2+ million does not seem like dead... by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't have a Windows phone, and don't know anyone that has one...

    But even though percentage wise the share is small, 2+ million phones in a quarter sure seems a fairly long way from dead, especially given Microsoft's motivation to maintain at least a foothold in mobile.

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    1. Re:2+ million does not seem like dead... by SuperKendall · · Score: 3, Informative

      I don't even know if niche is quite the right word - if you figure people replacing a phone every two years, selling two million a quarter means a base of something like a 16 million user base! That's a lot of people with a wide range of uses (you would think).

      Would we call any website with 16 million users a niche? Or even any other kind of computer hardware?

      Just because there are a LOT more people using other devices does not have to mean that sixteen million people stop mattering in what they do.

      Now that number may go down over time, but I would have thought the number was a tenth that already - at this point it sure seems like anyone inclined to move away from Windows Mobile would have already.

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  2. Ass-rape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

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

  3. Re:You mean Windows phones are rare as unicorns? by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Watch.

    What the fuck did I just watch??

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  4. Re:You mean Windows phones are rare as unicorns? by chr1st1anSoldier · · Score: 4, Informative

    As a current Windows Phone user, no you don't. I started on Windows Phone 7 and I'm still here in WP10, the experience has pretty much gone down hill. With the Exception of WP8.1, that was halfway decent. Everything else has just..... sucked. Microsoft hid the date applications were last updated in their app store because many of their apps have turned into abandon ware. Android and iOS are so far a head in features and functionality, I really do get envious when I pick up an iPhone or a mid to highend Android device.