Microsoft Holds 40% of the Smartphone Market
Posted by Chris Leckness on 05/16/08 in Microsoft
Oh really? No, no, they eye 40% of the Market as the Infoworld headline states. How on earth does Microsoft plan to do that? I am a big supporter of Windows Mobile, but I can’t see that happen unless Microsoft buys up one of the major players like Nokia. That is quite a lofty goal, but did you know that Microsoft had 13% in 2007? Symbian dominated with 67%. Only 27% more to go guys.
The target is ambitious considering the company’s relatively small share of the market for smartphone operating systems today and stiff competition from the likes of Symbian, Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry, and newcomers such as Google’s Android platform.
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS went into around 11 million handsets in the company’s fiscal year 2007, and it says it will reach nearly 20 million devices in fiscal year 2008, which ends June 30, said Eddie Wu, managing director of Microsoft’s OEM Embedded Devices in Asia, on the sidelines of a news conference in Taipei.
Source : Infoworld
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they must be high