“Windows Mobile’s share of the global smartphone operating-system market fell to 7.9% in the third quarter from 11.1% a year earlier, Gartner estimates. Also losing ground was Nokia’s Symbian,” Peers reports. “In contrast, both Apple and BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion boosted their shares, while Android grabbed 3.5% from zero a year earlier.”
Peers reports, “It doesn’t help that the latest version of Windows Mobile, 6.5, got a tepid reception. A fuller upgrade isn’t expected for another year. Or that device manufacturers such as Motorola are focusing on Android rather than Windows Mobile for new phones they’re developing.”
“What Microsoft risks losing is the chance to establish a stronghold in the mobile ecosystem. That is potentially a huge deal. Already, there are signs that mobile applications are changing Web browsing habits. Consumers may not need to use search engines as much to check their favorite sites,” Peers reports. “Instead, they can tap an application.”
Peers reports, “Microsoft famously stumbled early in recognizing the importance of the Internet and is still licking its wounds after losing out to Google on search. In the next year, Microsoft needs to make its presence felt in mobile, lest it miss another trick.”
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Okay, they’re gone. No way they’ll be able to resist a “GREAT PC DEAL” — in ALL-CAPS, no less. Cheap. Tasteless. Bastages.
Now, for the rest of us: It’s obviously already way too late for the lumbering, ineffectual, derivative, and delusional Microsoft and their shiteous Windows Mobile, no matter how much the moribund maestros of mediocrity (we’re feeling generous today, can’t you tell?) attempt to steal from Apple this time. As always: May Steve Ballmer remain CEO for as long as it takes!
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All microsoft had to do was make a decent OS and sell it to the 95% of the public who would buy it.
Its called ‘shooting fish in a barrel’.
They came up with Vista instead of a good and clear and functional OS and now they are struggling.
Gates got lucky with the gift of DOS and Apple’s arrogance back then, but his horseshoes arent transferring to Ballmer.
Apple changed, Microsoft didnt.
They have zero chance of entering the Smartphone world – with the turnover in phones as fast as it is, I cant see them even being in the Smartphone market in two years time.
If someone uses an iPhone, how long before he buys a Mac?
Same goes for Android and Linux (if there was a Linux that installed without Geek-Speak……)
A 7.9% market share sounds like rounding error to me.
We all know Ballmer is stupid, but this guy Martin Peers saying, “Consumers may not need to use search engines as much to check their favorite sites”
I don’t use search engines to check my favorite sites, I use my browser of choice and bookmarks. Have I been doing it wrong all these years?
” Consumers may not need to use search engines as much to check their favorite sites,” Peers reports. “Instead, they can tap an application.”
Yeah, that comment had me stumped too.
Comment from: Zune Tang®
You MAC dorks won’t know what hit you when I-Phone lemmings drop their flash in the pan toy phones for a multitude of wonderful Windows Mobile 7 choices.
In only a few years everyone will be using a Windows Mobile phone for 3 reasons:
1) Windows commanding market share makes a Windows Mobile phone an easy choice,
2) Face it, the I-Phone is very weak in important areas: it isn’t suited for the enterprise, doesn’t have a real keyboard or removable battery, and
3) Microsoft is super great to partner with. All the leading hardware manufacturers can’t wait to get on board.
Keep your heads in the sand, MAC sheep.
Your potential. Our passion.™
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Oh welcome back seems like you took time out over Xmas, did you mange to get a Girlfriend or are you still dating Steve Ballmer?
Oooh Windows Mobile is so great the the main manufacturer is HTC what a joje Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, LG are all looking towards Googles Android and symbian platforms and scaling back on their Windows Mobile !!!!
Lol
3) Microsoft is super great to partner with. All the leading hardware manufacturers can’t wait to get on board.
Yeh only because your lover is Steve Ballmer, if you rub his head you get 3 wishes you know
@ Derek in Milan: “with the turnover in phones as fast as it is”
Actually that’s exactly how they will be able to survive in the “smart phone” market. Most of these users are not loyal to their carrier or device. They don’t give a crap which OS it runs, as long as it “can” do all the neato things they saw some other person’s phone doing. So WinMo 7 will have a market just as Android does now.
My conspiracy theory: MS board of directors are all large holders of Apple stock — Ballmer is allowed to keep working so the value of their Apple stock increases.