RIM, Windows Mobile and Symbian marketshare are looking worse according to Nielsen

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disolitude said:

kitler53 said:

disolitude said:

famousringo said:

disolitude said:

famousringo said:

I don't think this is the biggest problem with WinPho, but I agree it is a problem. Ballmer thinks Windows is a really powerful brand. Maybe it is in corporate IT, but as you say it comes with a lot of negative baggage in the mind of the consumer.

Ballmer needs to let go of this vision of Windows everywhere. If he'd been running things ten years ago, the Xbox might have been called "Microsoft Windows Home Standard Entertainment Edition."

I disagree. Windows is the Microsoft operating system and a proven brand. No reasons to change it. Windows brand sells more devices per year than iOS, Chrome, Andorid and Mac do combined.

 

False. Time to check your preconceptions.

Two years after WIndows 7 was released, Microsoft boasted it had sold nearly 450 million copies of the software. That works out to 616,000 copies a day.

Android announced in December that daily activations had exceeded 700,000.

In Apple's latest financials, they reported selling 57.6 million combined iPhones, iPads and Macs (iPods excluded because I'm too lazy to track down how many are Touch models. It's more than enough to make up for the Macs, I know that). That works out to 636,000 devices per day.

Welcome to the post-PC era. Android and iOS are already bigger than Windows and still growing rapidly. Windows isn't even growing at all. This is why Microsoft is so desperately trying to transform their desktop OS into a tablet OS.

I could argue your math or the fact you are only looking at this moment right now, after Windows 7 has been on the market for almost 3 years and is in its decline. Or I could just post an article explaining my point...http://gizmodo.com/5878036/microsoft-sells-more-windows-7-than-every-mac-ios-and-android-device-combined

I am fully aware of the post PC era and the cash grab behind it btw. I spent most of this week working on monetizing video ads on an iOS app. And guess which OS I had to use to do this...

i think you hit the nail on the head with that one...windows sells but not out of desire.  i have to use windows at work.  at home where i have a choice, i use IOs.  what MS should be worried about is my company just recently decided to allow people to use IOs instead of windows now.  ...look what happened to blackberry once companies started accepting the iphone as an acceptable choice for smartphones. once MS has to stand on merit instead of momentum they are going to loose to apple.  

Does your company work in the finger paint or pinch to zoom industry sector? If so then I understand why they are replacing windows machines with ios devices. You do realize that iOS isnt a self sufficient ecosystem though. You cant make an iOS app with an iOS device.

I actually dont believe you that any company would consider switching windows based machines for iOS devices. There are so many things you cant do in iOS that most busenssea need their employees to do...they would be completely bonkers to do this. Maybe an iPad to compliment a real computer OS, but never a substitute.

I assume he meant Windows Phones, likely of the Windows Mobile not Phone 7 variety. Or maybe he meant Mac OS? If he meant replacing PCs with iOS iPads I would be a bit surprised, although I'm sure in some fields that might work.