I like today's article... http://m.windowscentral.com/journalists-guide-reading-adduplex-windows-phone-stats . It gives a better picture of the state of Windows Mobile in comparison to IOs and Android.
I like today's article... The journalist's guide to reading tea leaves aka AdDuplex Windows Phone Stats | Windows Central . It gives a better picture of the state of Windows Mobile in comparison to IOs and Android.
How so?
I don't think its too far fetched to imagine that if Windows on mobile fails, Windows for consumers will slowly give way to Mac/iOS and android/chrome. I think Windows in business will shrink, but hold the line for a long time though.Well, they just sold 40+% less phones this go around.
The CEO said it's unsustainable.
Mac marketshare is slowly increasing.
Forget the phones, let's concentrate on the bread and butter of MS - Windows.
2017- July: Global Operating system marketshare: Mac will have increased and Windows decreased. Calling it now.
This is so fake it's laughable!Relax people.
You are right Microsoft has alot of money, but why are they not marketing Windows 10 mobile? Well Windows 10 Mobile is not ready yet. Thats why, I can tell you that they are about to deliver cheaper good windows 10 models phones for the averige user, I have seen them and taken a look at them, yes those where prototypes but they are manufacturing them as we speak ,I can not tell you the name of the device but it has a 6 in it and apple wont like them, they looks awesome and do not look like they where build for proffessional work only but something hote girlfriend/wife would like alot , it is a 1gb phone with i averige but good cpu, BUT it looks awesome and is cheap. A price about 300$ as soon as they are ready with a complete line of nice hardeware and a OS that is ready, they will start marketing.
p.s snapchat was mentioned at my meeting with Microsoft.
Most articles point to the 520 being 3 years old, and being the most popular Lumia. They use this as evidence to show how poor sales performance has been for Microsoft. They forget/omit to mention that the most popular Android and Apple phones are also 3 years old.
Relax people.
You are right Microsoft has alot of money, but why are they not marketing Windows 10 mobile? Well Windows 10 Mobile is not ready yet. Thats why, I can tell you that they are about to deliver cheaper good windows 10 models phones for the averige user, I have seen them and taken a look at them, yes those where prototypes but they are manufacturing them as we speak ,I can not tell you the name of the device but it has a 6 in it and apple wont like them, they looks awesome and do not look like they where build for proffessional work only but something hote girlfriend/wife would like alot , it is a 1gb phone with i averige but good cpu, BUT it looks awesome and is cheap. A price about 300$ as soon as they are ready with a complete line of nice hardeware and a OS that is ready, they will start marketing.
p.s snapchat was mentioned at my meeting with Microsoft.
Since it was coming from someone with a post count of 1, I would tend to agree with you.This so fake it's laughable!
I'm in the same boat.
Like I said in another forum, sales were poor, as expected. When you don’t release any phones, don’t advertise, and spend more time developing for competing platforms than your own then yeah, you aren’t going to sell anything. MS continues to punch themselves in the face.
With that said, who cares. Who cares if their marketshare is low? If WP/W10M only had 100K users, and they were happy and Microsoft continued to support it, then so what? If it only had .5% marketshare, so what? Why does something need to die just because certain tech writers or fanboys thinks it should. I want W10M and Blackberry to do well. Consumers are going to suffer if iOS and Android are the only two options.
Most articles point to the 520 being 3 years old, and being the most popular Lumia. They use this as evidence to show how poor sales performance has been for Microsoft. They forget/omit to mention that the most popular Android and Apple phones are also 3 years old.
My impression was that it was the low sales and reduced marketshare that was driving the story but I guess this info was tacked on to make it even worse.
Yes apple mobile devices also running the same OS but they never address that to be a selling point and they keep their software exclusive to their devices and slightly different UX between types of devices yet somehow "link" to each other to build a full ecosystem(a little bit like the old MS "cloud first" concept). Now MS is in the other hand, keep selling this "one OS" conecpt and keep saying mobile market share droppping is OK, they don't care they have bigger plan than this. Do you think this two are sending the same message to the public?Apple is selling iPads worth 300$ and an iPhone for 700+$ iPhone, both running the same OS.
Do you really think people will think twice about wich hw runs wich os version?
Next to that, Windows 10 and W10M builds are pretty close together. I must admit that a W10 updates not yet results in a W10M update but that is going to change probably this month as MS acknowledged the fact that L950(XL) and L550 are going to receive updates together with Windows 10 PC on patch tuesday as of February 2016. The only reason W10M is not released every time W10 is updated, is because the OS is not yet on the majority of the devices. That will change once W10M is rolled out to WP8.1 devices (also during February 2016)
So we'll all have to wait and see about that.
And china market is the biggest single market in the world. According to IDC, china/US/india covered almost 50% of the global mobile market. MS failed in US, not a player in china and not sure how much they can sell rather than feature phones in india. From where they can climb back?China never was a big WP8.1 player, Although they have users around the globe, QQ/WeChat is only targetting the China market.
En plus, This friday Vaio (previously Sony) is going to show/release their W10M phone.
I don't think its too far fetched to imagine that if Windows on mobile fails, Windows for consumers will slowly give way to Mac/iOS and android/chrome. I think Windows in business will shrink, but hold the line for a long time though.
But then I just get called a ******, discarded. I don't get it.