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binary solo on 03 March 2015

Well if Sony is selling 37 million smartphones in a year and that is considered failing why isn't 35 million smartphones across all suppliers also failing?



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DirtyP2002 on 03 March 2015

lots of old phones, but they are acually making money with their phone-business, so it is all good.
I bet they will get lots of Apps as soon as Windows 10 releases.



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JoeAncelotti on 03 March 2015

I got a Windows Phone too, it's really nice!



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Dr.Vita on 03 March 2015

Nice for Microsoft but bad for Sony.




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Puppyroach on 03 March 2015

Best OS I have ever used and good to see sales of WP devices increases. Not that the Nokia affair has passed, MS can truly focus on gaining market share as well. And Windows 10 will be a HUGE push, especially with rumors of the possibility of using Android apps on it.



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Protendo on 03 March 2015

With all those Nokia phones on slick deal unlocked, with decent specs, and nearly free. It really seems like Microsoft has aggressively targetted the discount market. I'm not surprised, even Elop said that they are working hard to target the low cost market.

Though the Windows OS needs some improvements to catch up to Lolipop.



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kitler53 on 03 March 2015
the_real_dsister44 said:
2.8% percent marketshare hardly sounds like "not losing"


but soon someone could raise their window's phone proudly into the air and proclaim, "i am the 1%!"



Leadified on 03 March 2015
Landguy said:

Why did you type MS instead of Microsoft?  M$ = MS = Microsoft.  When Sony starts making money again, they will be $ony again.


As far as I know, M$ is usually used to insult Microsoft and as a reaction $ony to insult Sony. So I personally don't really think they are the best terms to use, but yeah let's just move on to the topic at hand.



Conina on 03 March 2015
Landguy said:

Let's look at the below charts, as we love charts here on the Chartz:

Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 2014 (Thousands of Units)

Company 2014Units 2014 Market Share (%) 2013Units 2013 Market Share (%)
Samsung 392,546 20.9 444,472 24.6
Apple 191,426 10.2 150,786 8.3
Microsoft 185,660 9.9 250,835 13.9
Lenovo* 84,029 4.5 66,463 3.7
LG Electronics 76,096 4.0 69,094 3.8
Huawei 70,499 3.8 53,296 2.9
TCL Communication 64,026 3.4 49,538 2.7
Xiaomi 56,529 3.0 13,423 0.7
ZTE 53,910 2.9 59,903 3.3
Sony 37,791 2.0 37,596 2.1
Micromax 37,094 2.0 25,431 1.4
Others 629,360 33.5 587,764 32.5
Total 1,878,968 100.0 1,808,600 100.0

Source: Gartner (March 2015) *Results for Lenovo include sales of mobile phones by Lenovo and Motorola.

Of course, M$ is only a few million behind Apple at this point.  So, M$ has securely planted itself into the low end of the market of mobile phones.  I think that M$ is taking the long term approach to this.  They know they need the scale and distribution model in place as they have done.

"Securely planted"? The Microsoft/Nokia phones have fallen from 251 to 186 million and lost second place!



Landguy on 03 March 2015
Conina said:
Landguy said:

Let's look at the below charts, as we love charts here on the Chartz:

Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 2014 (Thousands of Units)

Company 2014Units 2014 Market Share (%) 2013Units 2013 Market Share (%)
Samsung 392,546 20.9 444,472 24.6
Apple 191,426 10.2 150,786 8.3
Microsoft 185,660 9.9 250,835 13.9
Lenovo* 84,029 4.5 66,463 3.7
LG Electronics 76,096 4.0 69,094 3.8
Huawei 70,499 3.8 53,296 2.9
TCL Communication 64,026 3.4 49,538 2.7
Xiaomi 56,529 3.0 13,423 0.7
ZTE 53,910 2.9 59,903 3.3
Sony 37,791 2.0 37,596 2.1
Micromax 37,094 2.0 25,431 1.4
Others 629,360 33.5 587,764 32.5
Total 1,878,968 100.0 1,808,600 100.0

Source: Gartner (March 2015) *Results for Lenovo include sales of mobile phones by Lenovo and Motorola.

Of course, M$ is only a few million behind Apple at this point.  So, M$ has securely planted itself into the low end of the market of mobile phones.  I think that M$ is taking the long term approach to this.  They know they need the scale and distribution model in place as they have done.

"Securely planted"? The Microsoft/Nokia phones have fallen from 251 to 186 million and lost second place!

You skipped the most important part of that statement, "low end of the market".  They sold 185 million phones last year. Of that, less than 35 million were smartphones.   So, 150 million of M$'s phones were in the LOW END OF THE MARKET.  They have that covered I would think...



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