Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
Summary: Gartner predicts bad news for Microsoft and Windows Phone 7 in the mobile marketplace.
Gartner predicts bad news for Microsoft and Windows Phone 7 in the mobile marketplace.
According to InformationWeek, it's really bad news.
Gartner predicts the release of Windows Phone 7 will help bump Microsoft's share of the worldwide market from 4.7% in 2010 to 5.2% in 2011, but says the company's share will ultimately decline to just 3.9% by 2014.
According to data released by Nielsen, the current state of play is that Android holds some 32% of the US market, while Apple as a 25% share. This is an enormous mountain for Microsoft to climb, and it's little wonder why some feel that the Redmond giant might have another KIN on its hands.
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The reason Windows Phone 7 will fail
Yep, exactly, Microsoft introducing a half-baked phone will just be a
Let me say it in a funny way:
When I first heard that my HTC-HD2 will not be upgradable to Windows Phone 7, I was very angry. Today I am not! And imagine that I am really a fan of Windows Mobile and all the reasons make me (and I think some of this 4%) a fan, get wiped out just without any thought ?
Weird thinking they have some times...
RE: Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
"There is no chance of Windows Phone 7 having immediate success in its half-baked unfinished state. "
In your opinion, which is the perfect platform? IMO, none. For example, how do you manage 100s/1000s of iOS phones/tablets in an enterprise? Because with BB Enterprise Server is very easy. How's the Exchange support with iOS? Can I flag emails and automatically be flagged in Outlook via Exchange? Can I sort emails for flagged or unread messages? Why do I need to login to an iOS phone to see if I have unread messages or to see my next appointment?
My point is that there is no perfect mobile platform. So each user/enterprise has to decide, and many will choose iOS, others Android, BB or WP7. IMO, all platforms are playing in the same level and I don't see one of the them taking a strong advantage over the others.
Microsoft's last mobile OS got smoked, and there is not any indication
RE: Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
You do know the Metro UI has been well received?
RE: Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
Cylon Centurion: We also heard that the Kin was very well received, until
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RE: Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
Hey, did you copy paste your "Copy/Paste" statement every time there is an article about WP7?
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RE: Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
I don't understand why you even bother to post messages against WP7. It seems your just a scared little girl worried about WP7 becoming successful and pathetically railing against it. It's ironic that review after review of WP7 comes back positive many many more than negative.
I guess you feel you need to do something to fight against the upcoming waterfall of WP7 success.
What advice do you have for anyone who bought a failed phone?
RE: Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
That would be me Donnie and all the other WInMo users. It will be quickly followed by all those people who want a real smartphone rather than the geekasm (bugginess) of Android or the "please look I'm so cool, ignore my dropouts" vision of Apple.
People will buy Windows phones becasue of one reason - it's a Windows phone. It's easy to forget that Windows is the global OS and your beloved Linux and even Apple are just fringe players. That brand recognition of Microsoft and Windows (which is not touched by all the hate that is spewed out on these blog posts) will sell these phones by itself. This is to say nothing of the fact that it's also a better phone.
I am so looking forward to your cognitive dissonance, your rationalisations and your sad attempts to explain why so many people have bought Windows phones. Good times ahead Donnie, but not for you ;-)
Yea, like the people just flocked to Kin because Android was so bad.
RE: Gartner: Windows Phone 7 will trail behind the competition
ARM, RIM, Apple and Android are the leaders, you want it or not...
Windows is the fringe brand and Microsoft is also... just as Lotus 1-2-3 was a fringe brand on Windows.
Move on... go troll to another place...
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