“During a presentation at the ReMix conference in Paris this week, Microsoft showed a slide that said IDC had forecast 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices would be sold by the end of 2011,” Lawson reports. “The MobileTechWorld blog posted a photo of the French-language slide.”
Lawson reports, “As it turns out, IDC had said no such thing about the future operating system, on which many observers believe Microsoft’s mobile-phone future depends. Instead, the research company forecast 2011 sales of 32 million devices running all Windows mobile operating systems. This includes expected sales of devices with Windows Mobile 6.5, which is already on the market. IDC has not given any sales estimate for Windows Phone 7, which Microsoft has said will be available in the fourth quarter.”
“‘At the ReMix conference in Paris, Microsoft presented a slide projecting the number of Windows Phone 7 [devices] to be sold in 2011. This slide was inaccurate, and intended to represent an analyst’s assessment of the market opportunity,’ Microsoft said in a prepared statement. The company added that it has not provided any sales forecasts of its own for the OS,” Lawson reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We couldn’t be less surprised.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacRaven” for the heads up.]
They won’t even sell 32M windows licenses.
They were only off by 30 million give or take thirty million.
er Ballmer.
Rounding error
Yeah, even funnier. I forgot that their visionary plan is to have multiple, incompatible versions of MS phones on the market. Retards.
Ballmer likes his strategy.
Simultaneously lying and living in a fantasy world.
The most unbelievable part of the story to me is that next year millions of people will buy a brand new Windows Mobile 6.5 phone,
on purpose.
<Nelson>
HA-Ha!
</Nelson>
Do I understand correctly that IDC predicts that combined sales of WM 6.5 devices and WinPhone7 devices in 2011 will be 32 million?
Did they specify in which alternate reality those sales would take place?
@The Other Steve:
You got that right. That’s why the “accurate” IDC forecast is just as ridiculous as the “inaccurate” forecast that Microsoft claimed.
“It’ll DO internet, It’ll DO music, It’ll DO email”…
Yeah Steve, people don’t want it just to DO those things it wants them to do it well. How’s the competition now?
During the slow, painful and imminent demise of WinMo, they forgot to notify the next of Kin. It was awkward.
Did they use a Pentium based processor for that calculation?
Anyone buying an Osborne’d WinMo 6.5 device now, is a fool, let alone in 2011.
“Yeah Steve, people don’t want it just to DO those things it wants them to do it well. How’s the competition now?”
What was that crappy phone called? The Motorola Q? The BlackJack?
I can’t tell you how many times I see those Motorola guys boppin’ down the street… Pfft… The Signature black earbuds.
PS… Microsoft will rename WinMo6.5 —-> WindowsPhone 7 Classic so they can claim huge ‘sales’ numbers…
Wouldn’t that be cool if you could just.. do that every couple years? Rename older versions of OS X Snow Leopard to SL Classic, so you could claim huge sales figures, etc?
MacBook Classic = iBook Clamshell Toilet Seat
Hey everyone. It could happen.
Give these guys a break.
-Sent from my WinMo 6.5 device.
Maybe they threw in Kin sales too. Actually, that won’t help much, but if Windows 7 gets shipped in 2010, they are likely to sell more Kin devices and those with Windows 6.5.
M$: how to be more and more pathetic…
…And even more ridiculous!
from the full article:
“Microsoft has lagged in the fast-moving smartphone market as Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android OS have captured the limelight. IDC’s report showed about 16 million Windows Mobile devices shipped in 2009, with a forecast of 22 million this year and 32 million next year. Windows Mobile is in fourth place among phone operating systems, behind Symbian, BlackBerry and Mac OS X, and will remain there until 2014, when it will surpass Mac OS X, IDC believes.”
It’s even getting worse, in 2014 Windows Moblile will surpass Mac OS X. This could only happen when they rename all the other crap like XP, VISTA and 7 to Windows Mobile.
@pablorph
LOL!
Always amazes me how Microsoft, one of the largest businesses can fuck up on the most basic thing.
Hold on… I’m not surprised at all!
pablorph beat me to it.
@IDArgyll
LOL! Good one!
@lobol – what it doesn’t say in your text is that IDC also follows the Mayan calendar – therefore they believe they can make any about post 2012 events ’cause they don’t think we will be here to verify it!