Windows Mobile out sold the iPhone in Q4 2008

[Zyphlin]

Its good to hear, but not really unexpected to me.

Looking at the U.S. alone...Windows Mobile can be purchased for AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Altell. They come from motorola, HTC, Palm, LG, and others.

Then you have the iPhone...who is available on AT&T, and made by Apple.

If Windows Mobile DIDN'T sale more, and at least a good bit more, I'd say that would've been a catastrophic problem for WinMo.

MS only makes the money off the OS being out there, while Apple makes the money off of the phone AND the OS. That's 4.4 million phones where the money for it is going all to Apple (primarily) while that's 5 million phones where the money is being split between 2 groups.

This is kind of like a boxer beating up a one armed man. Can the one armed man still throw punches? Yes, but its not really much of an accomplishment if you only get a decision win. This was a decision win for WinMo...not a knock out.

If anything this could be a bad thing, making MS think there is no need to hurry and get Windows Mobile 7 out, which would be folly. With the greater number of carriers providing it, and the greater number of phone choices out there, WinMo should be up by well over a million phone sales if it was a vastly superior product for the CONSUMER (not the extreme enthusiest) instead of 600k .

[x10guy]

Originally Posted by BigDiesel07

Fair race? How so? I think it is a great race... For OS X to sell only 400,000 thousand less phones then the whole WM Empire, that is pretty amazing...

I agree. Not quite sure if we can take this as positive news.
A very loose comparison would be saying that all Ford cars outsold the Toyota Camry in Q4.

But then again, I'm not quite sure why it would matter to us anyways?

[Young_breedent]

Originally Posted by jpeepers

I agree with Kinya, not really a fair comparison. WM phones are sold by many providers and comes in a variety of platforms. iPhone is 1 phone and only sold by 1 provider (in the US).

(For the record, I'm not a iPhone fan just don't think it's a apples to apples comparison)

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I have to disagree....I look at it from an OS stand point. Windows mobile is an OS. Just because they have more phones that support that OS doesn't mean it's not a fair comparison. If the Iphone was that much better than Windows Mobile then people would do what was necessary to get one. I know if i really wanted an iphone i would jump ship and go to AT&T. But since the iphone is's a better device i stay put. Don't make excuses for apple. They only sold 400,000 less phones in a quarter so don't act like it's not possible for them to sell more then microsoft. It's very possible but people are starting to fall off of there band wagon.

[BigDiesel07]

Here and here are good articles to read pertaining to this news...

[dicast]

I'm sure iphone will over run wm if Apple stop being so greedy and let other provider selling their iphony as well. If it's not for sprint plan, got me a iphone already. Iphone is great device but not that great for me to kill my SERO plan and no way in hell I'm going to jump through all those loop with AT&T for an iphone. Microsoft, consider yourself lucky. Apple stop being greedy and share your tech.

[redrazr7791]

True if apple let someone else besides AT&T sell the IPHONE than the numbers would be much higher.......but i will say this.............HTC PUT THE B*TCH SLAP ON APPLE AND THEIR IPHONE LOL

[BigDiesel07]

And you have to consider that these include Worldwide sales...

[esqueue]

Originally Posted by KINYA

that is good but when you think about it how many wm phones are out their compared to i phones that doesnt seem like a fair race

That's exactly what I am talking about. How many iphones are there as compared to WM devices.

Not a fair comparison. 4.4 million is an insane amount for only 1 type of iphone.

[BigDiesel07]

Ahh.. Esq... I was looking at your argument that it is unfair to compare OS X to WM, but you say it is un-fair to compare WM to OS X...

[Young_breedent]

Originally Posted by dicast

I'm sure iphone will over run wm if Apple stop being so greedy and let other provider selling their iphony as well. If it's not for sprint plan, got me a iphone already. Iphone is great device but not that great for me to kill my SERO plan and no way in hell I'm going to jump through all those loop with AT&T for an iphone. Microsoft, consider yourself lucky. Apple stop being greedy and share your tech.

Dude if you really feel that way you can get a cheap T-mobile plan and an unlocked iphone and your good to go, and t-mobile has been rated #1 in cutomer services so you won't have to go through loops as u call it. T-mobile plans aren't expensive either but there internet is ****. What is that you say...........oh yeah thats right you don't want to do that and why because the iphone isn't that great of a phone to make those sacrifices. Honestly even if the iphone was on sprint i would keep my touch pro. The iphone has nothing on this phone and we don't even have windows mobile 6.5 and don't even mention windows 7.

Originally Posted by redrazr7791

True if apple let someone else besides AT&T sell the IPHONE than the numbers would be much higher.......but i will say this.............HTC PUT THE B*TCH SLAP ON APPLE AND THEIR IPHONE LOL

You are damn right they *****ed slapped them. It's not like sooooooo many more carriers carry htc over iphones. Actually if you look at it worldwide iphones are probably not equal but pretty damn close. And here in the states there are only 3 companies that even selll premier htc devices. Sprint, AT&T and Verizon. T-mobile's htc are always a piece of ****. And with these newer devices Verizon cripples them. So that leave Sprint and AT&T so it is a very fair comparison my friends.