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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by rahoulb on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:18PM (#6472432)
I'd say half of my "non-technical" friends have old crappy androids (and generally dislike them) and the rest have iPhones or windows phones (and like them). Apart from one hold-out on a Nokia feature phone.

I've not asked but I wonder if early android has put people off going with modern android when upgrade time comes around.

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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by psbp on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:29PM (#6472499)
Your friends don't seem very representative of the market.
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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by Danieru on Monday September 30, 2013 @06:21PM (#6472773)
I bet it depends on the local market. I was at Redmond over the summer and I'd guess the market share was 50% WP, 25% iOS, 25% Android. Some parts of the town have higher WP usage, others less.
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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by rahoulb on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @02:00AM (#6474408)
Well this is why I'm not surprised that WP is growing in share. For my friends it seems to be if they want to spend money on a "quality" phone they go for apple, if they want a cheap phone then WP. The only people I know with high-end androids are programmers and SEOs.
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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by pmelendez on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:29PM (#6472497)
Probably... I had a Gingerbread android and it would be really hard that someone convinces me to go back to that, it was just horrible.
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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by _random_ on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:59PM (#6472680)
You should see the latest models - they have 8-core CPUs and the scrolling is now almost as smooth as in WP/iOS!
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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by rahoulb on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:55AM (#6481882)
Heh... almost as smooth as my 2-year old dual-core iPhone 4S, or the single-core WP7 HTC Mozart I had before that?
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Re:Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe by vetinari on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:43PM (#6472578)
The only people I saw with Windows Phone were Nokia holdouts - they always bought Nokia and never tried another brand.
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