“Apple will almost certainly wipe up Microsoft in smart phone operating system market share during third quarter [2008],” Joe Wilcox reports for eWeek’s Microsoft Watch. “That’s my conclusion after further reviewing Gartner’s smart phone OS shipment numbers for first and second quarters.”
“By even the most conservative of analyst estimates about third-quarter iPhone shipments, Apple’s OS almost certainly will push aside Windows Mobile in smart phone operating system market share. The smart phone is Windows Mobile’s core market,” Wilcox reports.
“Financial analyst estimates range anywhere from 4.4 million to 6 million iPhones shipped in third quarter. Either number would likely push Microsoft down a spot behind Apple,” Wilcox reports.
“The reversal of fortune would be perhaps a psychological blow to some Microsoft Windows Mobile product managers and one big smiley face for Apple’s iPhone team. More importantly, it’s news Apple could seize for competitive marketing purposes. Then there will be the jibes from the Apple fanboy bloggers,” Wilcox reports.
MacDailyNews Take: No need to come up with any jibes when Microsoft’s witless CEO constantly provides gems like this: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, April 30, 2007
Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone (January 17, 2007):
MacDailyNews Note: By the way, for the sake of factual information, according to the most recent numbers from NPD, July 2008, Apple iPod has 73.4%, “Other” has 15.4%, SanDisk has 8.6%, and Microsoft Zune has 2.6%.
MacDailyNews Take: Here’s another Microsoft doofus remarking about Apple’s iPhone: “We are not at all worried. We think we’ve got the one mobile platform you’ll use for the rest of your life… They are not going to catch up.”” – Scott Rockfeld, group product manager at Microsoft’s mobile communications business, April 01, 2008
Wilcox continues, “Microsoft executives harp on about choice. That’s fine if businesses or consumers choose your product. The local supermarket offers lots of choice, but I can walk to the pricier convenience store. The point: Choice is good but it’s not a market differentiator. People need good choices, and Windows Mobile doesn’t feel like one of them right now.”
Full article, which includes a chart of Gartner’s worldwide smartphone OS shipments for Q1 and Q2 2008, here.
But Microsoft is so cutting edge!
So innovative!
such good advertisers!
i am amazed monkey boy still has a job. he has been wrong and positioned M$ in the worst possible way the past 3-5 years. I am surprised there has not been any shareholder unrest and pressure to boot him.
May Ballmer serve as M$ CEO forever! Long live Monkey Boy!
cannot decide, after watching that clip again, if Ballmer is either a liar, or just clueless!
My vote is for a clueless liar.
your regular bias opinion from a Micro Soft Pro publication
Ah. Chaos amongst the 20th century tech companies. It is to be expected. That Apple though, they do have good design. There will be a place for them in the coming Cloud City.
We won’t rain on their parade, too much.
We’ll let them call their Android device and iPhone for old time’s sake.
The Goog
There Can be only one
@Webbyswim,
Let’s not stir the pot…. Perhaps Uncle Fester is doing fine just where he is.
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If M$ bought “other” and SanDisk they would have an amazing 26.6% of the of the media player market. Wow, they’d be kicking butt!!
MW: fire-as in leave Monkey Boy alone!
For as long as it takes!
Amazing what happens where MS doesn’t have deep entrenchment, and actually needs to compete on their merits.
Good times ahead, folks. Good times.
MW: spring. As in spring ahead, as in the Windows Winter is finally thawing….
If you think only Apple fans will rain on Microsoft’s when iPhone sales crush them, you’re dead wrong. I have been a Windows Mobile enthusiast for years (yes it has a lot to do with not having an alternative) and for years we’ve been told such & such improvement or feature is not worthy of a “corporate centric mobile OS”. Well, fsuck you Ballmer and snobs in the WinMo Team. Business users are no different than regular consumers, they want innovations, usability and above all simplicity.
Now that the iPhone has a vibrante developer echosystem and plenty of apps down the pipe, my next device will be an iPhone the second my contract is up for renewal.
Apple looks well positioned to not just be a player, but to completely dominate post-desktop computing. This is awesome, and historic.
“Choice” is certainly one of the more important aspects of any market. I’d hate to see the iPhone take over more than – oh – 75% of the total smartphone market? Need those others to insure choice.
Hey, I’m still waiting to see Monkey Boy ‘squirt’ his Zune in public. Any takers??
Ballmer is a salesman, not a computer geek. He will not admit to Apple beating them if at all possible.
M$ have been incredibly successful in controlling the PC market. The OS lock gave them a monopoly which is only now starting to fail. They have failed to do the same in the mobile and gaming markets and never stood a chance in the mp3 market.
The tide is turning for sure and Apple will make obscene profits as a result. Apple have over 20B in cash with a current market value of 135B. The stock market will soon realize that Apple are creating another ipod phenomenon with the iPhone AND the Mac. Time for the stock to take off again. Back in 2000 when the dotcom bubble burst Apple said they will innovate out of the recession and look what happened. We are in the same scenario now.
M$’s only option now is to milk their monopoly for as much as they can because it will not last for much longer.
Steve Balmer = the George W Bush of Tech.
Monkey Boy is an idiot. May he remain at Microsoft forever.
I think Microsoft will swalow Apple.
You know, people say us Mac users are pretentious. Watch that video. Ballmer is the epitome of it. I love that he is about to get his ass handed to him by Apple.
It’s all about market share with you MAC sheep—because you don’t have anything else. The I-Phone clearly lacks the quality, design and inviting user experience Microsoft has crafted in magnificent Windows Mobile. Now MAC is copying Microsoft with me-too applications for their dumpy phone.
Go ahead, spout off about “more software for I-Phone than WIndows Mobile” and “my I-Phone costs less than a Treo.” Whatever. Maybe in 10 years your crappy wannabe phone will be able to play games. Losers.
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Ballmer pits the “Motorola Q” as an iPhone competitor?!
You’ve got to be kidding.
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LOL. It’s funny to watch the windows fanboys struggle to come up with ways that the “iPhone” (not I-Phone, lawl) is not as good as a Windows Mobile device.
“with you MAC sheep”
You start of by immediately insulting users of the Mac Computer, which has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone vs. Windows Mobile debate. (Oh, and it’s not MAC, it’s just “Mac”. MAC is something quite different.)
“The I-Phone clearly lacks the quality, design and inviting user experience Microsoft has crafted in magnificent Windows Mobile.”
Now, let’s remove the biasism:
“The [iPhone] lacks the quality, design and inviting user experience Microsoft has crafted in Windows Mobile.”
Lacks quality, design and inviting user interface? I suppose that’s just an opinion, but I have no idea where you got it. The iPhone is gorgeous, and has a very nice UI.
Compare them:
I think the iPhone looks a lot sleeker then that Windows Mobile Device, but that’s just an opinion.
“Now MAC is copying Microsoft with me-too applications for their dumpy phone.”
Remove biasism and correct.
“Now Apple is copying Microsoft with applications for their phone.”
If you call ‘allowing users to write their own apps for the phone and share them with others’ copying, well, then it’s not just Apple that has that idea.
“Maybe in 10 years your crappy wannabe phone will be able to play games. Losers.”
Remove biasism.
“Maybe in 10 years the iPhone will be able to play games.”
Uhh, well you see, the iPhone DOES play games, and it plays very good games at that. I don’t see SPORE Origins on Windows Mobile.
“Losers.”
Actually, you just lost.
@Lomoco, ZT was being sarcastic.
w/e. I had fun writing it, so you can’t blame me for that.
@labcondave
“Steve Balmer = the George W Bush of Tech.”
Good one!
Ballmer’s words must really taste good… b/c he sure does enjoy eating them.