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Market share is also finally growing. I've been hearing the opposite. Where are you reading this?

• gouranga 14y ago
  http://www.businessinsider.com/finally-microsoft-has-stopped-losing-market-share-in-mobile-phones-2012-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/finally-microsoft-has-stopped... Inevitably, they put the reverse spin on it because it's trendy... Also, you've got to call bullshit on the stats as the widely deployed Nokia Series 30/40 phones are still the most ubiquitous worldwide
  • cageface 14y ago
    Interesting. If MS starts making any real headway in the market I think that's really going to shake up the native app businesses. People are suffering enough already writing Android and iOS apps. A third platform is probably going to drive a lot of people to the web.
    • gouranga 14y ago
      Spot on. WP has good web integration as well i.e you can pin web sites to the start screen so there's a good opportunity there to bridge the gap.
  • mtgx 14y ago
    Growing 0.1% from last quarter is hardly "growing" or any indication about a bright future ahead of it. What happens if next quarter they are down again since I assume even fewer people will want to buy Nokia's Lumia now that they know it won't be upgraded to WP8?
    • gouranga 14y ago
      99% of people don't know or care. At least in the UK, we're buying tonnes of them. 3 months ago, iPhones everywhere in our office. Now all I see is "sent from my windows phone" all over emails :) I know 5 people who've binned iPhones for Lumia 710/800 handsets on contract renewal citing that the iPhone is clunky. (I will say I got rid of my Lumia 710 recently and replaced with a basic phone but that's not really because the OS or the device suck).