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

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dallas said:

famousringo said:

Even in Finland, carriers are undermining the Lumia.

Why do the carriers promote Android over Windows Phone? Because Android gives the carriers power. They can slap their brand on the device, they can preload promotional apps, they can block or allow updates and modify the software as they see fit. Windows Phone takes all that away. The author of that article also points out that carriers hate the competitive threat of Skype, so there's another black mark.

The biggest challenge for Windows Phone is to either convince carriers to stop fighting it, or to get consumers so excited abut the product that the carriers won't matter.

1. Android requires less phone memory allowing the phones to pack more in and still have more left for the customer

2. Android doesn't charge carriers to use its product.  The advertising model that was mentioned may just be the better idea.

3. Android has waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy more apps, so the carriers will know that they will get a lot more money by encouraging android sales

1. I have no idea if this is true or not, but I don't understand how it impacts WinPho7's relationship with carriers.

2. Whichever phone a carrier buys, there is a cost to licensing the OS, even Android requires a license for Google apps and various smartphone patents. Which OS is actually cheaper to license is priviliged information which I've never seen disclosed and may vary from case to case.

3. This is a tricky one, because carriers want to sell people on huge data packages, then discourage people from actually using them. They love to collect the toll, hate to pay the money to build out their network when it gets too congested and angry customers complain. So if Android users do consume more data than WinPho users, that may actually be a disadvantage in the mindset of a carrier. The perfect OS for a carrier would be one that convinces users to buy an expensive data plan, then somehow prevents them from ever using it.