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> The only way to be sure would be to see sales numbers from Microsoft. The fact that Microsoft hides those numbers is telling. Or we could look at the size of
by sorbus 15y ago
> The only way to be sure would be to see sales numbers from Microsoft. The fact that Microsoft hides those numbers is telling.
Or we could look at the size of the market at times when we know the percentage of the market they have, which gives us absolute numbers, and then graph those over time.
- azakai 15y agoGood point, here are some market share % along with absolute numbers: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/11/apples_ios_and_google_android_swell_to_62_percent_of_smartphone_market.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/11/apples_ios_and... Calculating from that, Microsoft has plummeted from 3,041M units to 1,724M units. In other words, Microsoft is now shipping almost half the number of phones it was shipping last year. That's much worse than I had imagined. Another datapoint, Bada has doubled in marketshare and now exceeds that of Microsoft.