Posted on 06/12/2011 9:45:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Windows operating system for smartphones is expected to gain market share in the next few years thanks to Nokia, eventually leapfrogging the iOS system used on Apple's iPhone. But Google Android will remain atop the field.
That's according to International Data Corporation's latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report.
IDC predicts Android will have 43.8 percent of the market in 2015, followed by Windows Phone at 20.3 percent. Apple's iOS will trail at 16.9 percent. The future projections would be a significant improvement for Windows Phone, which will account for just 3.8 percent of the market by the end of this year, according to IDC's figures.
At the end of this year, Android is projected to have the most market share at 38.9 percent, IDC says, followed by Nokia's Symbian at 20.6 percent, and then iOS at 18.2 percent. However, Nokia has declared Symbian dead and its current market position relates largely to Nokia's traditionally dominant position in global markets, particularly those outside the U.S. IDC noted in its Thursday report that Nokia has committed to support Symbian devices until 2016.
Last year, Nokia declared an audacious switch to Windows Phone for its mobile devices. This is what fuels IDC's predictions, although IDC hopes Nokia's take-up of Microsoft's mobile OS will be trouble-free. Bearing in mind Nokia is far from healthy these days, with sales forecast updates putting its stock price into free-fall, this is far from assured. The Mango update of Windows Phone 7, due at the end of this year, is also fuelling IDC's predictions.
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I wonder if the author has ever actually *used* a windows mobile phone?
Palm invented the smart phone.
In the US, Blackberry overtook them, globally, is was Nokia.
Apple relatively recently entered the market. I’m not sure they ever held the top spot in the US, I know they never held the top spot globally.
Overtaking iOS is a relatively unambitious goal.
Supposedly the new ones works quite nicely.
I’m not sure if I like the big blue and purple icons.
Good example. But where is Palm now?
BTW, I owned several Palms and the browsers never worked well.
Unfortunately, in the mobile space, Microsoft was years ahead of Apple.
You guys need a fact-checker to prevent you from regurgitating such lies.
On smartphones and PDAs, Microsft started with Windows CE in 1996 and kept developing/improving all the way through Windows Mobile 6.5 that was just discontinued.
Microsoft smartphones were far more capable than today's iPhone, but were hampered by hardware and network limitations.
Microsoft was also in tablets long before Apple, launching Windows for Pen Computing in 2001.
Ever hear of Windows XP Tablet Edition? It was geared to touchscreens and stylus input (for signatures, drawing and editing). Windows-based tablets are widely used in medical and other industries. These are work devices, not media players.
Lastly, the first music player was the Rio, launched in 1998. That was three years before Apple sold the first iPod. Yes, that was 4 years before Microsoft launched the Zune.
Oh, and if Microsoft is so far behind Apple, why do they have the XBox with Kinect (that Apple lost due to their irrational demands) and Apple still does not offer a gaming system?
It’s not exactly as if Apple invented the mobile phone.
I never said Apple invented the mobile phone.
Was that before or after they invented the internet?
Apple did not invent the internet, one of their board members did.
Palm was years late delivering their next generation OS. Then when it did hit, the hardware sucked wind. It was suicide.
the new windows phone 7 speaks for itself....BADLY.
nokia will not be helped and windows phone 7 will not help.
if anyone wants a closed phone system they would buy iphones not iphone done badly.
nokia was supposed to help symbian become dominant...
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