Android Tops Market Share, Mobile Data Usage

Windows 8 is not going to be adapted if MS follows their usual approach to windows releases:

98 - good, ME - bad, XP - good, Vista - bad, 7 - good, 8 - ?

By the time MS desktop OS catches up windows mobile is going to be irrelevant.

My biggest grip about Vista and Win7 is that the like to move stuff around. Make it better, make it prettier, but damn it leave things where the belong. There is no practical reason to reorganize the control panel.

The sales figure are below :

People associate Windows with their clunky junky computer at work or at home. That's why overall PC sales are flat or going down while Mac sales are going up. It's a small trend but it's a trend nonetheless.

An amusing assumption. A very large percentage of those new Macs run Windows. VMWare and Parallels are having nice market growth due to that, not to mention Boot Camp.

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I'd still take "flat" at >85% than a small increase from 10 to 11% over five years.

That's got to be a great feeling at Microsoft, they have been LOSING market share overall as more Windows Mobile users are leaving than the number of new users going to WP7.

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Microsoft is in it for the long run. Although their mango update is how it should have been released, they're making a lot of progress. Their OS is already vastly superior to ios. It just needs to catch up to android. Give it a few years.

what does "phone home" mean?

Phoning home, in computing, refers to an act of client to server communication where a client device or client application software reports its location on a network, the currently logged on user, or any other information to a server computer.

Phoning home may be useful in tracking a missing or stolen computer. This type of phoning home is frequently used on mobile computers at corporations. It typically involves a software agent which is difficult to detect or remove. However, there are malicious types of phoning home such as surreptitious communication between applications or hardware installed at end-user sites and their manufacturers or developers. The traffic may be encrypted to make it difficult or impractical for the end-user to ascertain what data is being transmitted.

android is better than iphone now. You can do more things with android. If you use that much data you are doing something.

In my opinion, I found that to be impressive. I guess 9 percenters prefer to stick with Windows Mobile and din't want to move to Windows Phone 7, don't you think?

Could a Mango update of Windows Phone 7 allow me to publish my own applications without going through a Windows Phone Marketplace? This gives Windows Mobile an advantage over Windows Phone 7 and that Windows Mobile does not have any hardware restrictions/requirements.

Plus, I tend to think that all the Windows Phone 7 phones are equal except for screen type, screen size, whether it has GSM or CDMA in it, and different looks. But I still stress that all WP7 phones are pretty much equal due to hardware restrictions and requirements, even though that's my opinion.

But by late 2012, all those generic Nokia phones will be replaced with WP7-based smartphones.. and they'll be going for $20 with a contract renewal.

And let's not even get into all the 3rd-world users who now buy Nokia phones, and still recognize and trust their brand. Nokia plans to turn its developers loose on WP7 applications - they intend to own that market from the ground up in Africa and Asia by providing functional applications that tie their phones to the network, banking and business, not lightsaber noises and angry birds..

You can get a WP7 for $50 which is relatively cheap and yet WP7 phones are not selling.

Why couldn't Nokia turn its developers loose on the Symbian platform and go after the Asia, Africa and Latin American markets with "functional" applications? Do you really believe that Nokia's hardware will be so much better than HTC, Motorola or Samsung (considering that the hardware in their smart phones are vastly inferior to Android and IOS phones) that they will take market share away from those companies? WP7 can’t save Nokia and Nokia can’t save WP7. I am afraid that Nokia = cheap dumb phones.

I call bull**** on this article and its summary. The wording of this article is deliberately misleading - Android does not control 36% of the phone OS market any more than Apple 'commands' 26%. The actual Neilsen source describes the truth - these are percentages of THE SMARTPHONE MARKET.

Microsoft is screwed for the next 12-18 months until Nokia can produce products that use WP7. But when they do, you'll see that marketshare climbing rapidly, not because all the rich hipster-dufuses and computer geeks started changing to WP7.. you'll see it increase because the smartphone market will include the MILLIONS of poor Africans and Chinese who now (and still will) buy Nokia DUMBPHONES.. because those old Nokias won't be running stripped-down Symbian without internet access anymore, they'll be running WP7.

And need I remind you that the vaunted smartphone market that Android and Apple so dominate is but a tiny ~20% of the actual cellphone market? 30-40% in some western countries but still far less than 50% even in the US, Canada or UK and less than 10% in many developing countries. You would do well to remember that very little of the world's population lines up for days every time to buy Steve Jobs' latest tech-orgasm, or hangs on every toy Eric Schmidt waves around at a conference, despite what the press and media would like everyone to think.

Apple and Google was never interested in the dumb phone market so their products are geared for the smart phone sector. Also, the smart phone market is projected to grow rapidly in the next few years. For example, by the end of this year half of phone sales in the US will be smart phone. Africa and Asia want smart phones too.