Windows Phones Down 38% Since '7' Launch

Re:Windows Phones Down 38% Since '7' Launch by csomar on Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:56PM (#2855309)

This is not quite accurate since the smartphone market is growing... fast. This means that Microsoft sales might have grown, but they still don't get up to the smartphone market growth. Android and iPhone began from 0% market-share and they climbed quick. There is room for another Operating System and may be more. Microsoft brings up something different. It's not as open as Android and not so closed like Apple (At least, you choose the device).

It's too early to judge. Also Microsoft has lots of cash to advertise its' smartphone platform. That's something that not all of the competitors have.

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Re:Windows Phones Down 38% Since '7' Launch by azakai on Saturday August 06, 2011 @10:17PM (#2855501)

Microsoft has a hard road ahead. HP has arguably better software with WebOS, plus bucketloads of cash. And I wouldn't count RIM out either, even though they are losing market share and don't have any technological advantage.

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Re:Windows Phones Down 38% Since '7' Launch by brudgers on Saturday August 06, 2011 @11:14PM (#2855621)

I agree. It is also the case that Microsoft has been clearing the product pipeline of Windows Phone devices in favor of WP7. It's a huge re-engineering and repositioning of Microsoft's position in a highly competitive market and their approach appears to be strategic rather than tactical. Their target appears to be enterprise and they are marshaling the resources and partnerships to make a play over the long run into the space which RIM has occupied and which neither Apple nor Google are structured to dominate over the long term.

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