February 23rd, 2010 by ahoogThis will be a pivotal year for Windows Mobile…the trend is not on their side but with it still sitting at #4, as the article says, they have a footing. Personally, I think the mindset of trying to adopt the desktop OS/GUI to a hand held phone put Microsoft at a disadvantage for so long it hard to imagine a successful recovery.
The smartphone data comes from Gartner, which measures actual sales to customers rather than to carriers or dealers. By that reckoning, Windows Mobile sales only declined by 1.47 million units to around 15 million units year over year. By comparison, iPhone OS sales more than doubled — to nearly 25 million units — with share rise to 14.4 percent from 8.2 percent year over year. Android made significant gains — and at the expense of other Linux-based smartphone operating systems, too — with share rising from 0.5 percent in 2008 to 3.9 percent in 2009 on 6.8 million units shipped. Android made its biggest gains of the year during fourth quarter.
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