“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.
Ah, yes… the good old days of ignoring UN “mandates.” The US and everyone else was invited 18 times.
The US is a little quirky. It’s always a little awkward being the first to arrive at a party… even when you’re invited.
MDN “ran” as in “I.”
@Raving Machead,
Of course, “standing by [our] country” means agreeing with your points of view.
By the way, ‘dam’ is the word used to describe those thingys that hold back water to form ponds and lakes. ‘Damn’ I believe is the word I believe you are looking for.
Oh, and have you heard about Sarah Palin’s husband belonging to the Alaskan Independence Party, which is dedicated to having Alaska secede from the US?!
Folks,
Other than an earlier inflammatory comparison, WITF does Bush or the US government have to do with MS? Other than the eventual bailout and takeover?
Crazy? Think again:
• We just bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (IOW, as both a homeowner and taxpayer, this means I just bought my own mortgage back, with interest. Sweet!
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• We WILL be bailing out Detroit within a year, if not before the elections. Welcome to Federal Motor Company.
• Next stop: Redmond. MS will be peanuts compared to the above. And a fitting addition to the Federal bureaucracy.
@confused,
The US has been bailing out companies for decades. Lockheed was bailed out in the early ’70s because their L-1011 airliner was engineless at the time because Rolls Royce had to redesign the engine that was powering it.
We bailed out the airlines after 9/11. We’s always bailing out somebody.
Methinks the Obamaniacs are getting very nervous. And rightfully so. The empty suit and hairplugs are going down bigtime in November.
To an earlier poster, yes, 9/11 happened during the Bush administration. But it was Clinton’s turning a blind eye and ignoring numerous terrorist acts that emboldened them. And they miscalculated that Bush would be as weak as Clinton.
@everyone.
all things aside in politics, but can we all agree that MS are fools? if so, lets unite under this one common belief and sing cumbaya
LoL, Amen.
It’s all about market share with you PC sheep—because you don’t have anything else. Windows Mobile clearly lacks the quality, design and inviting user experience Apple has crafted in magnificent iPhone. Now PC is copying Apple with me-too applications for their dumpy phone.
Go ahead, spout off about “more software for Windows Mobile than iPhone” and “my Windows Mobile costs less than a iPhone.” Whatever. Maybe in 10 years your crappy wannabe phones will be able to play games like my iPhone. Losers.
Your potential. Our Blunder.™
What’s all this talk?
Noodles Noodleman, you are aptly named.
Didn’t you read Arnold Ziffel’s post?
“…Number of Iraqis involved in the attacks of 9/11: 0 (zero)…”.
What the FOCK are we doing in Iraq?
Is Osama Bin Laden there?
Who knocked the towers down?
Osama Bin Laden.
Is that clear now?
If not, let me know.
Watching the video of Uncle Fester laugh at the iPhone is hilarious. One can hear the panic in his voice. Wonder if he’d be willing to be videotaped today laughing at this amazing product.
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@Noodles Noodleman,
Yes, you are indeed correct–the attacks of 9/11 happened on George Bush’s watch…after he received numerous warnings that something big was going to happen (see PDB of August 6, 2001).
And Bush sat in the school classroom for 7 minutes (doing absolutely nothing!) after being informed the 2nd tower had been hit.
Later that day, McCain began talking about Iraq being one of the countries that ought to be retaliated against (even though it had nothing to do with the attacks!). Then, after the anthrax attacks in October of that same year, McCain told us Saddam Hussein was responsible for the attacks. He wasn’t.
So, McBush had a hard-on about going to war with Iraq from the very beginning.
In March 2003, McBush had his dreams of war with Iraq realized, and now, $550 billion dollars and 4,157 dead American soldiers later, American forces are still in Iraq in numbers greater than prior to “the surge;” Baghdad is walled off into ethnically cleansed neighborhoods by 12′ blast walls; and thousands of Iraqis are being killed every month by suicide bombings, aerial bombings by American forces, and assassinations.
Meanwhile, unemployment in Iraq is staggering; supplies of electricity and potable water are poor and unreliable; and Gen. Patraeus now says he doesn’t foresee being able to use the word ‘victory’ to describe Iraq at any point in the future.
Our choice is clear–want more of Bush/Cheney and endless war? Vote for John McBush/Sarah Strangelove.
Want a chance at a decent future? Vote Obama/Biden.
Ballmer needs to get a new crystal ball if he wants to have any chance of making any correct prediction.
Keep the guy on as CEO of M$ … we need a daily good laugh.
To raving mac head:
As a seasoned world traveler…
I kiss the ground wherever I am because I call planet earth my home. I know about your top 9, as I have been to the United States. Sounds like you have missed some parts of Gaia where
1: Life is blessed.
2: You eat for free and are blessed by the worms in the dirt.
3: You walk because it is enriching and humbling at the same time.
4: It’s so freaking cold you take a bath in the snow.
5: You can wipe your ass with your hand, and you can choose the right or left one and on top of that you have the pleasure of not having someone telling you to eat it.
6: People know how to buy shoes the right size.
7: You can learn the advanced skill of washing your own dishes.
8: Humans realize that there are only two inalienable rights, one of them is to die.
9: Adults retain the child like inner light.
I don’t disagree with your top 9 though, there are places like that and I will go on to say “America was a very great country. No more. America oppressed Vietnam, America subterfuged South America’s oldest democracy, ironically enough on 9-11 (if that isn’t kharma I don’t know what is) and duh, find any weapons of mass destruction in the country you are currently oppressing?
“America champions the value of human life throughout the world”: Yeah right, America’s finest have shown us that.
“When some good country needs help, even some bad ones, America is the first to respond with aid.” Of course you are the first to respond, it’s a light trip for you. On a per capita basis you are the stingiest of the top 22 most developed countries. You might want to check your own back yard as to which country was first to help you during Katrina. Hint: It wasn’t the United States.
America is currently a threat to world security. Your country is born of wat destruction and chaos. Ever sum up the # of years you have been at war vs. the # of years you have been at peace? Now that is a scary figure. Thanks to your current administration it is getting higher. Last time at least there were enough of you with a backbone to get rid of your last tyrant leader.
Actually it is quite hard to knock America because you are so good at spewing your hatred for others over the news. Speaking of which, here is a news flash for you by the way, you cannot obtain freedom by removing it from someone else. American terrorist don’t want democracy of stability, heck if that was your goal, you would have caught Bin Ladin a long time ago. Yeah, you sure say a lot, but there are some Americans whom I greatly respect that say something else: “white man speak with forked tongue.”
And of course here it comes, your threat of violence, the cry of the bully terrorist. You are making a death threat to me on the net for expressing my opinion and standing up for my country? Yup you are a proud american all right. Nice try but frankly, you are the small schemed backstabbers. We will especially remember that.
God Bless Gaia and the free world.
TO MDN:
Could you please get rid of all the political dirt swinging comments that have been posted here.
This is a Mac computer forum, not an election campaign forum.
To those of you who can’t get away from the politics, pick a newspaper article in one of the major papers and voice your opinion there. Those of us who want to talk computers would really appreciate your cooperation. Thanks!
RIM and Symbian sales unaffected.
http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/09/smartphone-mark.html
@labcondave
Ballmer is more akin to Obama-mana from Heaven than GW, any day of the week.
Ballmer not a poor public speaker, he’s long winded and full of promises he can’t possibly keep.
“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.”
Everyone one of those things has happened and will happen in the United States. You left out censorship, torture, murder, pedophilia and adultery and that’s just the upper levels of the U.S. government.
@XMPP
Yes, that is exactly the point I was trying to make all that crap from the list and more happens in the US but the way it is put you think their crap don’t stink.
Not to mention the other ludicrous statements “it [the US] oppresses no one. Whoa must take a huge shovel to dig up that one.
But don’t get me wrong, there are many excellent people in the states that fits the bill he is describing, generous, non oppressive and peaceful. I do hope that the country can figure out how to bring itself to it’s former glory, do a Jobs so to speak. Otherwise, their empire will come tumbling down.