Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone • Hacker News Board

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by eclipxe » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 3:52 AM UTC

kenjackson wrote: post #7

kumarm wrote: post #4

>> Italy and Finland aside, Windows Phone is primarily growing is poorer nations where the iPhone is prohibitively expensive The markets that Windows outsell iPhone are the markets where iPhone has less than 10% market share and where people need cheaper phones. These are not the markets that are attractive to developers (Revenue/user is much lower than developed countries) and hence Windows will not see developer mi…

WinPhone mindshare already has grown drastically. There are certainly app gaps, but it closing fast. And before I'd ask companies if they had a win phone app coming they'd say, "what?". Now it is almost always part of the roadmap.

Citation needed

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 3:53 AM UTC

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Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by 300bps » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 3:57 AM UTC

sdegutis wrote: post #8

Semi-related: As an Apple fan for the past few years, I have to say, I'm really starting to like where Microsoft is heading. At least in terms of UI and UX.

After three iPhones (3G, 4 and 4s), my Lumia 928 is the best phone I've ever had.

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by Zigurd » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:01 AM UTC

Most of the reason behind this grab-bag list of places Windows Phone has some market share is that Nokia previously dominated sales in most of these places. Nokia used to be "tier zero" of the handset business, in a class by itself, and with a distribution network that reached where nobody else went.

It is a too-easy prediction that these numbers won't hold up as both upper-tier Android OEMs and deep-discount Chinese OEMs invade every remaining corner of the global handset market.

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by j_s » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:01 AM UTC

Is this an opportunity for app devs where the app store isn't as crowded so a quality app can really shine?

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by cft » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:01 AM UTC

This is good news for HTML5 webapps developers. Are there any on HN?

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by sdegutis » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:09 AM UTC

300bps wrote: post #13

sdegutis wrote: post #8

Semi-related: As an Apple fan for the past few years, I have to say, I'm really starting to like where Microsoft is heading. At least in terms of UI and UX.

After three iPhones (3G, 4 and 4s), my Lumia 928 is the best phone I've ever had.

Thanks for sharing. I'm getting tired of my iPhone's problems, so I'll probably be in the market when my contract expires. I'll look into that one.

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by cheald » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:14 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #3

Look. I don't hate Windows Phone, my girlfriend has the HTC 8X and adores it. With the latest set of big apps ported (like Instagram and Snapchat), it's quite nice. The interface is good, and fast on modest hardware. The browser is pretty meh. PIM functionality is good, as you'd expect from Windows Mobiles pedigree. But comparing an entire ecosystem of phones (with one of the biggest sellers being the $100 Nokia 520)…

Because as developers, you don't develop for a specific piece of mobile hardware, you develop for an OS.

If Windows Phone is gaining ground in markets you care about, you'd best care about it, regardless of the specific hardware being talked about. We're comparing ecosystems here, not hardware. We can compare "Windows Phone Phones vs iOS phones" if that makes you feel more comfortable.

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by outside1234 » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:14 AM UTC

I was in Vietnam last year and it was like being in this bizarro world where Microsoft dominated mobile.

Re: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone

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Post by quaffapint » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 4:16 AM UTC

kenjackson wrote: post #7

kumarm wrote: post #4

>> Italy and Finland aside, Windows Phone is primarily growing is poorer nations where the iPhone is prohibitively expensive The markets that Windows outsell iPhone are the markets where iPhone has less than 10% market share and where people need cheaper phones. These are not the markets that are attractive to developers (Revenue/user is much lower than developed countries) and hence Windows will not see developer mi…

WinPhone mindshare already has grown drastically. There are certainly app gaps, but it closing fast. And before I'd ask companies if they had a win phone app coming they'd say, "what?". Now it is almost always part of the roadmap.

I have to agree. I was looking into developing a winphone app, figuring there'd be plenty of options, but when you search in the store there's already a decent match for the most part on similar android/iphone apps. I was actually kinda bummed, figuring I'd have easy pickins.