"accounts for 93.2 percent of all Windows Phone handset sales highlighting little traction or interest from companies where Microsoft does not have control" - more like companies incapable of building something better then current Nokia products.
Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone
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#72I was in Vietnam last year and it was like being in this bizarro world where Microsoft dominated mobile.
A whole country full of tasteful and sophisticated people? I'll have to visit.
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#73This is good news for HTML5 webapps developers. Are there any on HN?
We have higher-level tools and languages on WP platform. And we can use Xamarin for cross-platform cod reuse. Thankfully there is no strong need for HTML5.
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#74Australia is interesting, where Android actually fell 5.5%, and both iPhone and Windows gained. Even BB gained in Australia. Every other country has Android gaining. With so much competition in Android space, there are some great offers available.
"With so much competition in Android space" - you mean different versions of Samsung Galaxy silvery-roundy-corner things competing with each other?
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#75Didn't Apple take a more gentrified approach to their sales? I was under the impression that Apple didn't bother to market to any of the markets listed in that article because they aren't THE LARGEST AND RICHEST MARKETS IN THE WORLD. It took them over 3 years to release ANY version of an iphone in finland (one of the listed nations in the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_iPhone#European_... U.S.A…
Not true; from the article: On May 27, 2008, TeliaSonera released a press release stating that it would start selling the iPhone in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia during 2008.
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#76Most 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…
This is the real reason behind these numbers, Nokia's brand and distribution network.
Interestingly, Microsoft hasn't bought the Nokia brand for smart phones so once the sale goes through all new phones will no longer be branded Nokia. And after as short period of time Nokia will be able to licence the name to some unpronouncable-to-westerners company from China and Nokia Androids will be on the market to compete with Microsoft Lumias.
I'd love to know if Microsoft bought the distribution network. I don't know if it's technically part of Nokia or just a network of partner companies.
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#77There was me expecting a map... If you want something doing right... http://i.imgur.com/HqLIJ3q.png
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#78Finland can likely be explained exclusively by Nokia. Interesting to see what happens now they are to all intents and purposes a part of MS.
Shame really, back in the pre-smartphone days I always had a Nokia as they made the best hardware by far. Nokia phones with CyanogenMod would have been a perfect combination.
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#80Trivia really. Apple and WP both sell smartphones but they don't really compete against each other. Sure Nokia trots out a high end phone every 6 months or what have you but the sales on those models aren't moving the dial on market share. The people who are in Apple's market ($400+ smartphones) either buy an iPhone or a high end Android phone. The people buying 95% of these WP's (510 is $150 unlocked, 520 is $200) a…
Sure it does. They're just choosing the WPs based on price.
Seems dodgy. Sure you could say that most people who buy Kia Optimas are choosing them over a Mercedes on price but it honestly doesn't occur to most of those people that a Benz is an option for them because it isn't. And anyone saying Mercedes is losing market share to Kia would be laughed out of the room.