famousringo on 13 February 2013
| man-bear-pig said: Oh my god...this article actually contains so much fail. MS confirmed in their earnings release that they sold 4x more WP's in Q4 2012 than they did in Q4 2011...so +400%+ is a more accurate figure, not +124%. |
How Microsoft accounts for sales may not exactly correspond with units shipped to retail. Remember that Microsoft's business is selling software licenses to OEMs, whereas Gartner is trying to estimate how many hardware units OEMs ship to retail. It could very well be that Microsoft has sold licenses for Windows Phone which have yet to be installed onto hardware and shipped to retail.
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