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I cant really argue with to much of what you say, but in my defense as i said in my original post i dont really consider BB to be smartphones, i would also exte

I cant really argue with to much of what you say, but in my defense as i said in my original post i dont really consider BB to be smartphones, i would also extend this to Symbian. Though this is entirely my opinion, most of which i would probably say is as much my bias to WM as anything :). But at the same time if you look at the statistics here on market percentage [1], you see my main point to that windows has lost nearly all of its previous market share. [1]

seanmcdirmid 14y ago
But WM's marketshare of the overall mobile phone market was never that large, so ya, they lost half, but half of a small share. I don't see anything else Microsoft could have done with Windows Phone (disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee but no inside info). I mean, the iPhone was pure disruption. Android then comes a long and destroys the market for OSes because they gave it away! So iPhone disrupts the high end, Android disrupts the low end, and Microsoft is put into an interesting non-trivial position.