Windows Phone Market Share up 23.5% in Europe

#1

Post by ojosilva » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 8:01 AM UTC

Windows Phone Market Share up 23.5% in Europe
thenextweb.com

Re: Windows Phone Market Share up 23.5% in Europe

#2

Post by rahulthewall » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 8:30 AM UTC

As the article itself states

>Of course, it’s easy to grow by large percentages when one’s market share remains limited.

It still is a jump from 1.36% to 1.68%.

Re: Windows Phone Market Share up 23.5% in Europe

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Post by digitalengineer » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 8:55 AM UTC

rahulthewall wrote: post #2

As the article itself states >Of course, it’s easy to grow by large percentages when one’s market share remains limited. It still is a jump from 1.36% to 1.68%.

My thoughts exactly. Makes for nice headline and lot's of clicks though.

Re: Windows Phone Market Share up 23.5% in Europe

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Post by mtgx » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:05 AM UTC

I hate misleading titles like these. The base is very small to begin with so any sort of jump in sales will seem "significant", even though it's not. The whole WP7 market share is even smaller than it was when it started 2 years ago, at under 2%.

Re: Windows Phone Market Share up 23.5% in Europe

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Post by Toshio » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:30 AM UTC

Most likely Stephen Elop is buddy-buddy with the clueless CEO of a large company who probably went "Yes, we'll take 200000 handsets for 50 eurocents apiece to distribute to our employees, thankyousir."