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| Time: 05:39 EST/10:39 GMT | News Source: Microsoft Watch | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Just how much is Microsoft hurting in the mobile space? According to a recent Gartner report (complete with chart reproduced in this Dec. 29 Wall Street Journal article), Windows Mobile's market share fell to 7.9 percent in the third quarter of 2009, down from 11.1 percent the same quarter last year.
By contrast, Android occupied about 3.5 percent of the market that same quarter; the iPhone OS, 17.1 percent; and Research In Motion, 20.8 percent. Joining in Microsoft's pain was Symbian, which reported a year-over-year decline from 49.7 percent to 44.6 percent.
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| #1 By 2332 (173.13.97.180) at Thursday, December 31, 2009 09:54:50 AM |
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IMHO, WebOS from Palm is an excellent example of simple, elegant mobile UI design. It has excellent task management. Excellent notifications. Intuitive flow. Etc. The primary flaw is the hardware, which is cheap.
I'd be damn happy if Microsoft essentially copied WebOS, allowed it to natively run .NET/Silverlight apps, and threw it on hardware like the ZuneHD. Honestly, I'd be happy if the ZuneHD was also a phone and had the option of a slide out keyboard. |
| #2 By 8556 (173.27.242.53) at Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:46:10 PM |
| Call it Bing OS. The average person probably would not link it with the older highly functional, but stodgy and uncool in their eyes, Windows Mobile. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at Thursday, December 31, 2009 02:26:29 PM |
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#2, You have a good point.
If any other company were to take WinMo 6.5.3 or 6.7 and release it with the dev tools and the available apps (some 45,000 of them) under any other name, the press would go ape and gush all over it - UX/UI included and favorably compare it to Android (at a minimum). A few pundits that have compared it to Android, despite the "Windows Mobile" handicap, have been candid and described 6.5.3 as being BETTER than Android's latest release - while ignoring WinMo's support for multitasking, multi-many-core mobile processors and very capable developer tools in VS 2010. It makes you scratch your head... |
| #4 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Thursday, December 31, 2009 05:35:37 PM |
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Are you sure Visual Studio 2010 support WM6? I am not sure; actually I believe the opposite.
Btw there was a lot of coverage when the first images of 6.3 leaked; maybe if MS would officially announce it people would talk about it...... |
| #5 By 150 (213.81.83.50) at Friday, January 01, 2010 08:57:47 AM |
| Not calling it Windows Mobile may well help. Windows Mobile (in the UK) has become synonymous for poor handsets, slow clunky UI etc - until they lose the Win Mob name people here (consumers) will steer clear of it. Android phones in the UK are getting more and more coverage thanks to good word of mouth. |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Friday, January 01, 2010 09:53:24 AM |
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What about "WmOBILE"? Or "WeW" (Windows everywhere)?
It is short enough, easy to remember and playing with lower and upper case letters could capture people eyes attention. |
| #7 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Friday, January 01, 2010 09:54:23 AM |
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All right, all right.............. marketing is not my strongest point.
Happy New Year everybody!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| #8 By 150 (213.81.83.50) at Friday, January 01, 2010 10:11:27 AM |
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http://gizmodo.com/5438096/microsofts-lost-decade-in-mobile?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29
Most perfect article that has summed up Windows Mobile to me |
| #9 By 31608 (190.39.1.124) at Friday, January 01, 2010 10:12:54 AM |
| I like Microsoft, but I also like this falling on WM's market share because it seems that microsoft only works well when one of their divisions falls to the ground. |
