HTC is about 6-7% of the worldwide smartphone market, and since they’re about the only vendor making Windows Phone devices right now, it makes sense - your graph kind of shows it as well.
We’ll see how it shakes out when the monster that is Nokia starts shipping Windows Phone devices. Most of that green Symbian chunk will transfer over to Microsoft’s gray, for a combined 22-24% of the market.
Samsung also makes a Windows phone, the Focus. My wife has one. There was an article I read recently called 10 company names that will die out this year and Nokia was on that list.
I just don’t have much faith in MSFT anymore. They are consistently late to market - with every single product they make. Can you even remember a time when any MSFT OS has released in the same year it was promised?
Win Mobile died, Vista was a disaster, Win7 is essentially a full-price patched version of Vista, Mango is an update to a mobile OS that is a year late, and adds functionality that barely match what Android had last year. One of MSFT’s biggest problem is ‘perception’. It has earned a reputation for ‘arrogance’ in every market it has entered.
Let me clarify. XBox360, plauged with ‘Red Ring of Death’ - was known and understood prior to laungh. MSFT didn’t care; they foistered flawed consoles to customers - and it cost them billions. Vista was a lemon, MSFT knew this before launch, but they wanted revenue from the OS side of the house, so they tried (unsuccessfully) to kill XP in an effort to force sales of Visa; they then forced Win7 on us in an effort that was successful in killing XP. Win Mobile was abandoned for Win7 Mobile - again, late to market and feature-poor. The Xune was released late, killed, re-incarnated as the Xune HD, killed, revived and killed again. MSFT made the Kin 1 and the Kin 2 phones; these phones were released, and then cancelled within a year.
At what point do you think “Do I really want a 2 year contract with this company, when I can go with Android or iOS and have a stable, supported platform?”