Microsoft isn't failing in Mobile?

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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!