“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.]