Bad news?
They are starting from 0, and considering what “single digit” % is in terms of the total number of smartphones, that could be 10s of millions.
Also, Android started from the exact same point in 2008 and didnt hit double-digits until the past year.
Microsoft never stated that they would have 44% of the market in the span of a few months. Only people that want Microsoft to disappear, and kids that talk smack on the internet, thinks that was their aim in their first year.
And besides if “single digits” was a terrible place to be, then someone tell that to Apple so they can stop selling OSX.
RE: They are starting from 0, and considering what “single digit” % is in terms of the total number of smartphones, that could be 10s of millions.
Yeah, I guess I should not underestimate Microsoft. Every single technology they manage to dominate the past 15 years, were ones they did not pioneer.
Count them : the spreadsheet, word processors, browsers, database, windows network, etc.
The above were started by visionaries who garnered a huge market share when it first started and then eventually lost it to Microsoft.
We’ll have to wait and see with smart phones as well.