“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.
labcondave=the Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf of MDN feedback.
I am sorry, what is it exactly that Ballmer has done to stop terrisom on US soil again?
Did you all read the full article. The author starts out by dissing the iPod and iTunes.
“Some background: Yesterday, I couldn’t get to Nokia’s announcement about licensing Exchange ActiveSync for Symbian S60 handsets. I instead posted to Apple Watch on new iPod colors (the one new feature) and iTunes 8’s sales pushiness.”
Now, one might want to say a lot of things about the new Nanos, but colors is NOT the “one new feature”. Also, guy complains about the “clutter” on the new iTunes. I have to admit it takes some getting used to, but you can easily switch to the old style views. It’s not like you stuck using the new features. I also happen to like the Genius feature. It’s a great addition.
Am I the only one here with the impression that our Zune Tang is getting ready to abandon his nome du plume rather soon? There is this Google McCloud fellow, whose style sounds remarkably similar to Zune Tang’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a strategic move on the part of Mr. Tang, what with the imminent demise of the notorious Zune device itself, thus making the Zune Tang name rather, well, anachronistic. He seems to believe (correctly) that Google stands to outlive MS Zune by a long shot, thus he might be better off switching his satire in that direction.
Should this be the case, Welcome Mr. McCloud. Please make sure your wit remains at least at the same level of Mr. Tang’s, as it occasionally provided quite a lot of amusement for the regulars here.
BlackWolf:
Precisely as much as Mr. Bush. There’s the original point of the comparison!
Now all Apple needs to do now is somehow break the RIM monopoly in business. But that is also controlled by IT types also.
When does Bill G. joins the Apple-Google board of Directors ..?
I’m guessing there’s a lot of commenters on MDN that will just love Obama Waffles.
Especially TowerTone.
Just to state the obvious here – when Apple passes winmob market share, they will have done so by selling millions of DEVICES.
Not merely OS licenses, this is a far more impressive achievement.
@Predrag
I can list a few foiled attempts that were stopped in the last 7 years, please name a sucessful one?
Also, how has Ballmer brought freedom(slow and painful as it might be) to 50 million oppressed people, including but not limited to the general freedom to gripe and complain, the freedom of religion, the freedom of womens rights, the freedom to pursue education, the freedom of the press, the freedom to earn, keep, and spend ones own money.
We might not like it (or the people who had to step up afterwords)but 9-11 was a game changer. Everything before that was old school, it’s a whole new world out there.
To get back to the artical, (gosh I need to learn how to spell), those who keep doing what they always have will keep getting what they always have. ie; if Ballmer & crew keep playing catch up they will continue to loose market share. If Job & crew keep innovating they will keep growing.
It makes me wonder what young upstart will come along in 20 years and knock entrenched and old crusty Apple off?
Now if Apple will reach out to 3rd party Enterprise software vendors and work to make their software compatible with the iPhone and get off their butts and give the iPhone the ability to edit Word and Excel documents… Windows Mobile would officially die. This would allow mature business firms the ability to choose the iPhone. RIght now big business firms can’t choose the iPhone because it is not Enterprise friendly.
…with lots of syrup.
It’s hard to believe that some of us still don’t get ZuneTang.
I still think it’s time that Apple consider licensing their OS. One or 2 really good MFG’s out there would blanket the market and hasten the demise of M$. HP as a licensee in computers would burst open the enterprise market. A strong co-mfger in the phone base would be a boon to counter the moves of RIM. Apple likes a tight hardware lineup, but there’s lot’s of uncovered market in there that M$ and others are just cleaning up in and continues to hinder mindshare and market share for Apple software and hardware. No keyboard for the iPhone is another good example. Let another mfg offer one. Apple doesn’t have to change it’s design, but let’s face it, there’s a large pocket of users who want that. Why not let someone else go after it, and make some money off that effort to boot?
@ BlackWolf
Since when should we be bringing freedom to other people. Like anything else, you have to earn it to really appreciate it. Who brought freedom to the USA? We should support efforts, but I think it’s bullcrap, and hasten’s the demise of the USA to use our resources and american lives to earn someone else’s freedoms. The iraq people won’t even pay the bill out of their ill gotten oil profits to “PAY” for the freedom we are providing. I think somehow the oxygen to washington dc got cut off for an extended period. No other way to explain our current policies.
Sorry to go off on the political front, I can usually avoid the trap, but as I watch hurricane IKE devastate Texas, and I know our “friends” in iraq will never ever help us out in our hours of need, unless we kneel and pray to Mohammed.
Steve Ballmer = the Gore of Tech
Steve Ballmer = the Kerry of Tech
Steve Ballmer = the Obama of Tech
In other words, the big loser, the arrogant loser, the racist loser.
@chaz,
Iraqis don’t have safe drinking water or reliable supplies of electricity. They are far worse off than folks in Ike’s path. Why in the world would we expect them to come to our aid when they have been living with bombings, assassinations, etc., for five-and-a-half years?
@Arnold.
exactly. thats like asking guatemala to help you guys with your homeless.
@who ever said the bush thing about preventing terrorism.
i have been handing out anti-terrorism rocks for five years. it has proved effective and thus i will take credit for the lack of terrorism in north america. just like homer simpson’s stealth fighter bear patrol help fend off wild bears in springfield.
Yes, sadly, must be a real moron.
So, when you have nothing to counter with, resort to name-calling.
Other facts you might not be aware of: 2 million Iraqis have left Iraq because of the violence and another 2 million have been displaced within their country. That would be the equivalent of 50 million Americans losing their homes.
Number of Iraqis involved in the attacks of 9/11: 0 (zero)
Administration in charge when 9/11 attacks occurred: Bush
Amount spent by US in Iraq War per Iraqi: ~$22,000
Number of Iraqi civilians killed in July/August ’08:
6,600 (equivalent to losing 79,000 Americans)
Bring it on, name callers!
Damn, and I thought the cup was half full.
But then again, I’m an optimist….
@Arnold
I’ll tell you one thing at which the Bush Administration has been very successful: Brainwashing millions of people like BlackWolf into thinking somehow the loss of lives and loss of economic stability is worth whatever the hell we are doing in Iraq. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
@ chaz
My my what wonderfully dumb comments you made. Talk about bitting the hand that freed you. Let’s have a look see.
“Since when should we be bringing freedom to other people.” My reply would be when they are ready for it and frankly the Iraqi people under Saddam were far from ready for it. So while don’t you haul your sorry ass out of there? Because simply put you are now a terrorist alliance known as AENUS (Australian, England ‘N United States). So you are not bringing freedom to anyone, rather you are bullying and oppressing the free world.
Now for your second question “Who brought freedom to the USA?” Certainly the American people did, but you had substantial help from France. One of the founding fathers Benjamin Franklin went there and acquired a lot of resources that made the revolution possible.
Here is a good read.
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_II/benjaminf_hc.html
Maybe you should take a hard look at who made a substantial payment to your freedom before expecting someone else pay for the so called freedom you think you are providing. The recognized government of Saddam Hussein never asked you over, you went there because, what were the lies you told the world again? Oh yeah, weapons of mass destruction and association with 9/11 (the one with the buildings, not the other terrorist support of Pinochet).
Some of us will especially remember those lies and the damage you have inflicted upon the free world.
Still time to change though, maybe reread those brilliant ideas of the constitution and act upon them. After all you have the right to bear arms and defend yourself against the tyrant government that is leading you.
AENUS (Australian, England ‘N United States). So you are not bringing freedom to anyone, rather you are bullying and oppressing the free world.
As a seasoned world traveler…
I kiss the ground every time I land home in the USA.
I have been to many countries where…
1: Your life isn’t worth a dam.
2: You eat what ever they happen to sell this week or starve.
3: You walk or ride a bicycle if your rich.
4: You take cold baths in a pot.
5: You wipe your ass with your hand.
6: The doctor tells you don’t need any attention as gangreen advances up your leg.
7: Your cook washes your dishes with cow dung.
8: Women have little or no rights.
9: Children are bought and sold as sex slaves.
America is a very great country, it oppresses no one, unlike Hitlers Germany or Stalin’s Russia.
America champions the value of human life throughout the world, it does what it can, but it can’t do everything.
When some good country needs help, even some bad ones, America is the first to respond with aid.
America helps secure the world against those who want nothing but destruction and chaos.
It’s very easy to knock America, but it usually come from those who either hate the level of freedom we enjoy, or just never have things really really bad and can appreciate everything America offers.
America, Russia and China all want world stability. Islamic terrorists want death and destruction. And it seems a lot of clueless, Bush bashing Liberal idealists want that too.
Well this is what I got to say.
Stand behind your country or get on the front lines and stand in front of it as it to make it easier for the rest of us to shoot your backstabbing ass.
Amen and God Bless America!!
unlike “God Dam America” like Obama’s 20 year pastor Rev. Wright likes to say.