Microsoft Nosediving
They’re not quite zero-day figures but I’ve got some intriguing statistics for you in case you’re in the mood, courtesy of comScore. I’ll let the numbers do most of the talking, though not all of it.
Microsoft’s mobile market share in the States as of the end of January 2010 fell 4% from its 2009 August through October average. Google, in stark contrast, jumped up 4.3%.
My prediction you ask? This trend will continue, Google will overtake Microsoft before WP7’s release giving it a stronger foothold against WP7 once it’s released, Palm will sadly dwindle further and Microsoft will give itself a dead cat bounce with WP7 but never quite touch anyone already above them. Palm yes, everyone else, no. Symbian? Haven’t thought about that, got nothing for you. I look forward to none of you being able to use this to sting me with my own cocksure words: Possibly within the year, and if not, not too long into the next, as sure as you were born, Google will be closer to Apple than Microsoft will be to Google.
One lifeline I see of Microsoft’s is getting taken seriously by businesses and cutting into RIM. At the same time however they appear to be dressing up their new phones up as toys more aggressively than even Apple and that will hurt their penetration into companies with a BES in back — meanwhile Google will entice more migration within that crowd into Google Apps, ultimately helping their phones cut into both RIM and Microsoft, and not just their mobile operations.
| Top Smartphone Platforms 3 Month Avg Ending Jan ’10 vs 3 Month Avg. Ending Oct ’09 Total U.S. Age 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens |
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| Smartphone Platform | Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers | ||
| Oct-09 | Jan-10 | Point Change | |
| RIM | 41.3% | 43.0% | 1.7 |
| Apple | 24.8% | 25.1% | 0.3 |
| Microsoft | 19.7% | 15.7% | -4.0 |
| 2.8% | 7.1% | 4.3 | |
| Palm | 7.8% | 5.7% | -2.1 |
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Doug Simmons
Biographical info.. hmm. I have a history of not being able to strike the balance between what is "safe" to put into these forms and what is, in my mind at least, funny. Can't do it.
It’s hard to take this reporting seriously when the article is flanked on 3 sides by Google Nexus ads. Pander much?
Rich, if you think we’ve figured out how to get kickbacks for praising a company or boldfacing a particular statistic, you overestimate our business acumen. Just to make sure I wasn’t misunderstanding you, I looked up pandering and found these. Kind of interesting:
1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
2. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.
Now having said that, I can assure you with my journalistic integrity that you should buy phones from Google with promotion code mobilitydigestrules upon checkout to save 10%.
I know, those are google adsense generated ads. I am working on limiting how many of them display. It is not my choice to display so many. I have been swamped with a lot of other site issues and some major changes, so please be patient. thanks for pointing that out.