Windows Mobile, she is dying
- June 7th, 2008
- 5 Comments
Microsoft Watch has a good examination of the slow improvement in market share for Windows Mobile. Their assessment? The interface is hampering sales. Duh!
Symbian is, of course, the number one smartphone OS in the world simply because Nokia runs them exclusively and Nokia is doing pretty well (14 million Nokia phones shipped in Q1 2008 with 18.4 million Symbian phones shipped) while RIM is a distant second (4.3 million). Windows is at 3.86 and the “everyone else” is in the 2 million range. Palm is at 657 thousand, a sad place to be for the gentle giant.
That Symbian, something completely divorced from Microsoft, can eat Microsoft’s lunch is a damning situation. Unless the new versions start looking - and working - like Microsoft spent more than 40 man hours in in back in 1998, they’re in trouble.
Surur (Who am I?)
2 months ago
So they grow shipments 80% YoY, and WM is dying?
RIM has a worse interface, and is not hampered by this?
Nokia’s interface is not much better than RIM’s, and of course they (and Symbian) lost market share. Are they dying too?
Also, Gartner does not count all of WM shipments. They put a portion, about 500 000, into wireless handhelds.
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=61
Read a better analysis of the numbers here.
Amy Fielder (Who am I?)
2 months ago
The Symbian is doing so well.What a suprise.The original chap behind this system,(Before he sold out),was the Dennis Potter chap who started the Psion organiser.He once sold ice cream in Hyde Park in London.
http://www.crimeajewel.com
Douglas Hopkins
2 months ago
“They’re” assessment? Do you mean “Their”?
How does one become a writer at CrunchGear…I’d like a shot.
Douglas Hopkins
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Skye B. (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Hi Douglas,
This page has a place that you can write to CrunchGear, maybe you could write to them and ask if you could get a chance to write for them. They probably do interviews. I mean I don’t know that for a fact, but it doesn’t hurt to ask.
I would imagine that, ““They’re” assessment?” the “They’re” was a typo. We are all human. :)
John Biggs (Who am I?)
2 months ago
You’re in luck. We were looking for a perfumer.