“Microsoft continues to fall farther behind rivals Apple and Google in the smartphone market, according to data released Monday,” Paul McDougall reports for InformationWeek.
“Microsoft’s share of U.S. smartphone platforms slipped 1.7%, to 8%, during the three months ended Jan. 31, according to market watcher comScore. Over the same period, Google Android’s share increased 7.7%, to 31.2%, while Apple’s iPhone held steady—increasing .1% to 24.7%.,” McDougall reports. “The biggest quarterly falloff in market share belonged to Research In Motion, which saw its stake decline 5.4% to 30.4%.”
MacDailyNews Take: Those numbers are going to do some interesting things as the Verizon iPhone units begin to hit to data collectors.
McDougall continues, “The new data surely comes as a disappointment to Microsoft, which was counting on Windows Phone 7 to restore its relevance in the increasingly crucial smartphone arena. Backed by a multimillion dollar ad campaign and events around the country, Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 devices from HTC, Samsung, LG, and Dell on Nov. 8 with carrier partners AT&T and T-Mobile. The company pitched Windows Phone 7’s “Smart Tiles”, which deliver instant messages, e-mails, and social networking updates to the home screen in real time, as a way for users to instantly get the information they need without getting lost in a sea of icons.”
MacDailyNews Take: And why is WIndows Phone ’07 pitched that way? Because it has a shot glass of icons available. They tried to cover their AppLack™ with marketing B.S. They failed miserably.
McDougall continues, “Microsoft isn’t giving up the fight. The company last month struck a deal with Nokia under which the Finnish company agreed to use Windows Phone 7 as the default OS throughout its smartphone lineup. That could boost Microsoft’s share of the global mobile market, where Nokia remains the leader in terms of units shipped despite a falloff in recent quarters. The companies have conceded, however, that their deal is preliminary and consumers may not see any Windows Phone 7-powered Nokia phones in stores until 2012.”
MacDailyNews Take: Who wants to bet that Ballmer’s already been up to Canada with a dump truck full of cash trying to sign up RIM for the Windows Phone ’07 bomb?
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yet another delectable slow-motion train wreck from Microsloth.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
That image is priceless!
“But they’ll see the Big Board!”
And “There’s no fighting in the War Room!”
“I like our strategy, I like it a lot.”
-Balmer, just prior to iPhone launch
The best thing about Windoze phone ’07 is that model in their commercial with the black lingerie. She is quite stunning.
Ditto!
My eyes popped out of its sockets.
Sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but the word is “stanch.” To stop or restrict the flow of blood.
Again, sorry.
Staunch in the UK!
Color : Colour
Theater : Theatre
Gray : Grey
American: The other English.
maneuver : manoeuvre
That one always killed me when I had to write it.
Budweiser : Moose piss
Canadian the other English. 😉
Would that be English of the “Great White North eh?” variety? 😛
You bet eh?
Android may lead iOS 30,4% to 24,7% but my guess is that a great many Android users just tinker with their phone (modify this and that, etc.), they don’t do any real work or communications with it. In other words: teenage nerds.
You got that backwards.
Only 1% of those 30.4% are nerdy people that bought the high-end models (the so-called iPhone killers). The other people just couldn’t/wouldn’t afford a real iPhone and got the cheap knockoffs because the alternative would be a BlackBerry (HAHAAHAHHAA)
Maybe you’re right. But I’d use an Apple phone and computer and tablet no matter what their “market share” is.
Don’t forget all the BOGO sales Verizon had prior to landing the iPhone. Funny, those seem to be over now.
MDN is right – next quarter’s sales figures should be very interesting, and continuing over the next two years as Verizon Android contracts expire.
why not be fair. compare models. This is so out of whack, means nothing. Lets make a comparison that makes sense!
I agree! 0$droidphone vs iPhone?! Why not compare vw golf & ford focus units sold vs Rolls-Royce units sold…
So true!
The article quotes: “Over the same period, Google Android’s share increased 7.7%, to 31.2%, while Apple’s iPhone held steady—increasing .1% to 24.7%.” How about comparing *iOS* units to Android units, i.e. oranges-to-oranges?
MDN, don’t let them get away with this bullshit!
Would it be too much trouble for MDN to delineate the end of their “takes”? For example, in this article, why not put “McDougall continues” in blue? That would make it a lot easier to tell the difference what you are comment and what you are commenting on.
As a long time reader, I agree with this idea. Yes it is easy to spot the start of MDN’s take, but I would appreciate MDN making it easier to find the resumption of the article too.
That sounds like the white goose in those disability insurance commercials on TV: APPLACK!
APPLAAAAAAAAACK!!!
@FCgrabo:
Sorry, but according to the OED, “staunch” is also acceptable….
The Nokia strategy is fantastic. Pay $1B to gain market share in Pakistan, Greenland and Belize where Symbian currently dominates. In the US, where market share really counts, Symbian is invisible. In the US, Windblows ’07 might just get back its old market share with the Nokia deal. Ballmer must have a deathwish. He has Kevorkian on speed dial.
Reportedly Microsoft is paying Nokia.
I meant Microsoft’s Nokia strategy.
@FCgrabo, Grammar Nazi implies there is only one valid way of saying something… the word is also staunch to us what speak proper inglish (Yorkshire, England) staunch 1 |stôn ch; stän ch |
adjective
1 loyal and committed in attitude : a staunch supporter of the antinuclear lobby | a staunch Catholic. See note at resolute .
2 (of a wall) of strong or firm construction.
• (also stanch) archaic (of a ship) watertight.
DERIVATIVES
staunchly adverb
staunchness noun
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [watertight] ): from Old French estanche, feminine of estanc, from a Romance base meaning ‘dried up, weary.’ Sense 1 dates from the early 17th cent.
staunch 2
verb
variant spelling of stanch 1 .
stanch 1 |stôn ch; stän ch | (also staunch)
verb [ trans. ]
stop or restrict (a flow of blood) from a wound : colleagues may have saved her life by stanching the flow | figurative the company did nothing to stanch the tide of rumors.
• stop the flow of blood from (a wound).
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French estanchier, from the base of staunch 1 .
Er, Yorkshire? That’s like saying they speak proper English in Glasgow…….. 🙂
Eh up? ‘ow’s yer liver?
I suspect those RIM numbers are going to keep on dropping faster and faster. I still know a lot of people with BB, but they are all old models and many of those people are thinking of making a change, mainly to iPhones.
“Ballmer’s already been up to Canada with a dump truck full of cash trying to sign up RIM for the Windows Phone ’07 bomb”
The two man tag team running RIM are too full of themselves to cash in and let Microsoft run the operation. They would rather run RIM into the ground and lose everything.
Fine with me. I hope all three keep their jobs forever.
Seems like they’re both Finnished!
“Who wants to bet that Ballmer’s already been up to Canada with a dump truck full of cash trying to sign up RIM for the Windows Phone ’07 bomb?”
They don’t let Ballmer drive the dump truck anymore. Too many iHops between here and Waterloo.
morons! how soon they forget…
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/10/microsoft-celebrates-windows-phone-7-rtm-with-funeral-parade-for/
BWAHAHAHA! The ultimate ironic dark ritual. Every day it becomes more darkly hilarious.
But Microsoft trolls, please do continue extolling the virtues of your heros. My personal health requires a laugh a day…
I wonder how that iPhone funeral is working out for Microsoft. I guess they kind of put the cart before the horse.
Or the cart before the hearse. 🙂
Perhaps they put the hearse before the horse..
Any microsoft board members or stockholders, please be assured “Microsoft isn’t giving up the fight!” Steve Ballmer has a brilliant plan underway that will bear fruit if you just remain patient and don’t complain. Under no circumstances should you suggest his replacement. He is doing a masterful job and must have a free hand to do his important work.
Nokia has to sell ’em before Windows Phone 7 marketshare can grow. I don’t see that happening.
As far as Android market share goes, I believe this situation is in many ways similar to the Windows – Mac OS situation. Windows computer market share statistics are inflated by point of sale devices and other Windows-based devices that are not general purpose computers. Along the same lines, there are many so-called “smartphones” on the market that are not close to being comparable to the iPhone 4. Those devices dilute the market share estimates.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone on January 17, 2007
Interviewer: “Steve let me ask you about the iPhone, and the Zune, if I may. (Ballmer smiles) The Zune was getting some traction, and Steve Jobs goes to MacWorld and he pulls out this iPhone. What was your first reaction when you saw that?”
Laughter from Ballmer
Ballmer: “$500! Fully subsidized! With a plan! I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine.”
It never gets old. Enjoy your crow pie, Mr. Ballmer.
Microsoft makes a smart phone? Really?
The numbers also suggest that Android has kept Apple iOS flat for one year… Growing less than a percent! Go Google Go’
Uh, no. The numbers suggest that Google has failed to compete with Apple for yet another quarter. If it were succeeding, then you’d see iPhone marketshare decrease. The only ones having their lunches eaten by Google are Microsoft and RIM.
Android is being adopted by people who either just plain don’t want an iPhone, or can’t get one even if they do want it. What Google isn’t doing is inspiring existing iPhone users to switch or luring away people who do want and can get one.
That’s why Android didn’t reduce iPhone marketshare despite having ludicrous gains of 7.7% to 31.2%.
If you’re fishing for some kind of clear Google victory in all of this, I don’t think “uh, well, the iPhone didn’t grow alot…” really cuts it.
No, Jon, the numbers suggest that the survey is comparing an OS–Android–to a device (iPhone). If it had compared OS to OS, iOS would be well beyond Android. If it had compared device to device, no smartphone outsells the iPhone, not even close.
Scary, huh?