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>> Italy and Finland aside, Windows Phone is primarily growing is poorer nations where the iPhone is prohibitively expensive The markets that Windows outsell i
by kumarm 13y ago
>> Italy and Finland aside, Windows Phone is primarily growing is poorer nations where the iPhone is prohibitively expensive
The markets that Windows outsell iPhone are the markets where iPhone has less than 10% market share and where people need cheaper phones.
These are not the markets that are attractive to developers (Revenue/user is much lower than developed countries) and hence Windows will not see developer mindshare in near future.
Notice other than Nokia Home base (Finland), Windows does not outsell Android anywhere else.
- kenjackson 13y agoWinPhone mindshare already has grown drastically. There are certainly app gaps, but it closing fast. And before I'd ask companies if they had a win phone app coming they'd say, "what?". Now it is almost always part of the roadmap.
- eclipxe 13y agoCitation needed
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt's clearly intended as anecdotal evidence. Citation request: WONTFIX
- quaffapint 13y agoI have to agree. I was looking into developing a winphone app, figuring there'd be plenty of options, but when you search in the store there's already a decent match for the most part on similar android/iphone apps. I was actually kinda bummed, figuring I'd have easy pickins.
- ethana 13y agoThis is just anecdotal evidence, but increasingly some of my friends and relatives are including Galaxy and Lumia into their conversations about phone upgrade. So maybe it's getting into the general mind-share.
- adolfojp 13y agoI wouldn't be so sure about that. Windows computers have always been cheaper (in general) than Macs and software developers just flocked to the Windows platform.
- manojlds 13y agoBut Android is the Windows of the mobile world.
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- fosk 13y agoI understand Finland (home of Nokia), but why Windows Phones are gaining market share in Italy?
- trollingyou 13y agoapple charges 30% more for anything they sell in italy.
- kifki 13y agoThey come very cheaply (or for free) with most phone operators.