Re:Court docs reveal Epic CEO's anger at Steam's 30% fees
by thih9 on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:40PM
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> killing Windows Phone, when it was around 10%
According to the verge they killed it when it was 2.5% [1]. IDC also lists 2.5% by the second quarter of 2014 and a peak of 3.4% in 2013 [2].
[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/10/16452162/windows-phone-h...
Re:Court docs reveal Epic CEO's anger at Steam's 30% fees
by pjmlp on Thursday March 14, 2024 @05:11PM
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My numbers say otherwise, as I was focused on European market when I wrote my comment.
https://www.ft.com/content/80972f3a-29c0-11e3-bbb8-00144feab...
https://thenextweb.com/news/report-windows-phone-overtakes-i...
https://thenextweb.com/news/windows-phone-climbs-to-nearly-1...
Re:Court docs reveal Epic CEO's anger at Steam's 30% fees
by thih9 on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:23PM
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I’m not seeing numbers that show otherwise. Unless you meant that the 10% was for europe only?
Re:Court docs reveal Epic CEO's anger at Steam's 30% fees
by pjmlp on Friday March 15, 2024 @02:13AM
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> According to data from a Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report for the last three months up to August this year, Windows Phone-based devices accounted for 9.2 percent of smartphone sales in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
You can play pedantic and assert 9.2 isn't the same as rounding it off to 10, anyway.
It is similar to how Microsoft is now unhappy to have to deal with Apple and Google, after killing Windows Phone, when it was around 10%.
Turns out 10% market share was still better than not owning any mobile platform where they can't really push XBox games as they wish.