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Windows phones are smartphones. That is the market share that ballmer was talking about.
by boundlessdreamz 16y ago
Windows phones are smartphones. That is the market share that ballmer was talking about.
- jonknee 16y agoBut yet he mentioned the number of total phones sold (1.3b) while talking market share so he didn't mean smartphones. Apple has a tiny sliver of the total phone market and that's what he meant. Microsoft has an even smaller sliver, but he said he wants/prefers a large chunk of that total market: > But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent of them, than I would to have 2 percent or 3 percent, which is what Apple might get. He was exactly right about Apple's position but there's no obvious way Microsoft will be able gain mass adoption. Google will.
- rimantas 16y agoApple has a tiny sliver of the total phone market and that's what he meant That was mentioned in the article: Apple has 10x less market share than Nokia and still more revenue.