Nielsen put out some figures in a new blog stating that all non Apple and android phones accounted for a measly 10%.for the last 3 months

 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/smartphones-account-for-half-of-all-mobile-phones-dominate-new-phone-purchases-in-the-us/

not too surpirsing

Well, Symbian never did have much presence in NA, so that's hardly a surprise.

RIM falling to 5% is a crushing defeat, but not an unforeseeable one. I still don't think it's too late for RIM to make a comeback. They're still profitable and have a big cash hoard, but they really need a very clever game plan to stay in this. Even if they could hit feature parity with Android and iOS, I don't think it would be enough. They need to become a clearly superior solution to at least some customers to retain a place in this market.

It's disappointing how much WinPho 7 has completely failed to catch on, though. It seems trapped, stealing enough control over the user experience that the carriers favour Android over it, but not attracting consumers enough that the demand forces carriers to promote Windows phones anyway. You could say that a handset has two customers, the carrier and the end user, and other platforms seem to be more attractive to both customers.

This data corroborates an NPD report that put iPhone US marketshare at 43% back in January, and suggests those market gains will be persistent.

I think this is going to be the shape of the US smartphone market for some time to come. I don't expect any big, dramatic shifts will occur for a few years. Android and iPhone will wrestle each other for a handful of percentage points, while the bit players fight to claw their way out of oblivion.

I want it to but the cold hard truth is that Windows Phone will never take on. When people have a choice they won't pick something with Windows in it because Windows just doesn't sound modern and interesting, it sounds old and it's forever associated with hassle and frustration.

Nokia has not even launched Lumia yet in NA so it's not surprise that WP is so slow.

Nothing to do with topic now but i want sony to ditch anriod and go with vita os

Well we will see about RIM. They have an earnings report later today. They could be tanking.

Give windows phones some more time, i believe it will slowly pick up.

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."

This is assuming that everyone using computers couldn't figure out how to install drivers using Windows 98...and now is butthurt on anything "Windows".

Luckily I was not one of these people. All I know is that HTC Titan Windows Phone is awesome and absolutely no one in Canada has it or knows it exists since it was never sold here. Feels good to have something this good that no one can even buy. :)