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Originally Posted by gTen
Thats not saying much...
1) Many carriers already discontinued their winmo handsets..and those that didn't don't have them on display much...
2) Most people that buy winmo know what it is, and don't buy it for the hype or etc...they also know that winmo is discontinued by M$ and chances are won't buy it..and most of the few who do buy it won't sign a 2 year contract
3) 2% sounds like a small number but it isn't..Winmo sold 4% total sales...WP7 sold 2% total sales..aka winmo sold 2x more then WP7..Winmo used to be like 7% I think the quarter before...aka WP7 right now is ~1/4th of what winmo was 2010Q3 (which still isn't winmo's prime time..for reference 2009 winmo had around 20%)
4) WP7 sales were around the same as sales for WebOS..to note WebOS has a lot more limited availability then WP7
So yes the numbers are not looking the best...
iPhone had record sales on 1st sale day over any phone when it came out >.>..but its obvious M$ is not out of the game..but the pressure is on..
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But did iPhone totally own the market right when it launched? That's the point I'm making. People are saying that just cauze WP7 didn't blow up everyone's servers on release day, then it's a fail.
In regards to the numbers, even if it is 2% and 4%, that means MS has 6% of the market. Arguably that's 150% of what they would've had w/o WP7. I'm not saying they're incredible numbers, but that ppl shouldn't be so quick to doubt MS plan.
Don't get me wrong by any means, MS has messed up quite a bit in the mobile market. I'm even pretty frustrated that there is STILL no CDMA release, and the best date they can give is "before the end of the first half of '11"... Now I understand that most of the world is GSM, but since they sat on their hands, now they have the CDMA iPhone to compete with. I'm tempted to jump to a different OS myself in the interim since my TP2 has a couple bad spots in the screen, but i dont wanna use an upgrade and then have WP7 drop a week later.
My other $.02