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Update: Windows smartphone shipments nose-dive after strategic retreat (down 35% from 2014)
ComputerWorld ^ | Nov 18, 2015 | Gregg Keizer

Posted on 11/18/2015 6:25:50 PM PST by dayglored

...And 80% of Windows phone owners desert the ecosystem for Android or iOS.

Windows phone shipments took a nose-dive in the third quarter, plummeting 35% from the same period in 2014, researcher Gartner said today.

By comparison, total global smartphone shipments climbed 15% in the third quarter.

Of the 353 million smartphones shipped in the September quarter worldwide, less than 6 million were powered by Microsoft's Windows, making Windows' share 1.7%, Gartner estimated, down from 3% in the same quarter of 2014.

Windows phones shipments tumbled in some of the historic strongholds for the OS, said Roberta Cozza, a Gartner analyst. "In both Latin America and in emerging markets, there were strong declines," Cozza said in a Wednesday interview. "Consumers are moving on to Android. I just don't think that the Lumia brand is strong anymore in the mid to lower end. Microsoft's message doesn't resonate with price conscious consumers."

The September quarter was the first full period since Microsoft announced a major retrenchment of its smartphone business and the strategy that had guided it. In July, even though it had written off billions former CEO Steve Ballmer sunk into acquiring Nokia's handset business the year before, Microsoft said it would continue to manufacture devices and push other OEMs to use Windows.

CEO Satya Nadella repudiated Ballmer's plans, but he denied that the company was exiting the business. Instead, he spelled out a strategy that would tightly focus on Windows loyalists, value-oriented consumers, and business workers.

From all evidence, that's not worked...

(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: smartphone; windowsphone; windowspinglist
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Wow, what the heck happened?? Is everybody waiting for Windows 10 to hit the phones?
1 posted on 11/18/2015 6:25:50 PM PST by dayglored
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To: dayglored; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
Trouble in Windows Phone Land, c'mon Windows 10 for Phones! ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

2 posted on 11/18/2015 6:26:40 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Swordmaker; ThunderSleeps; ShadowAce

You guys may want to ping your lists on this one...


3 posted on 11/18/2015 6:27:30 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
Too bad because the Nokia WP that I have has been a good phone. Now, I'm looking at the Blackberry Priv since the battery seems to be going on the Nokia. The Priv is an Android, which doesn't thrill me, but it sounds like it is a good phone.
4 posted on 11/18/2015 6:32:39 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: dayglored
WTF, this is bad. Windows Phone users -- how do you feel about your phone? Are you waiting for Windows 10 for phones?


http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/11/windowss-share-of-all-smartphone-shipments-100628925-large.idge.jpg

5 posted on 11/18/2015 6:33:51 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Major Matt Mason
> Too bad because the Nokia WP that I have has been a good phone.

I had a couple of terrific Nokia phones back in the days of analog cell phones. Switched to an LG flip phone and then to an iPhone. These days, Windows phones would have to convince me pretty hard to switch, but I don't hold anything against them. There are a few things I don't like about the iPhone, although not many. But I'll bet Windows 10 works pretty darn well on a phone.

I will say, though, that Nokia made great phones back in the day.

6 posted on 11/18/2015 6:38:18 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
It's really down to Android and iOs. Microsoft was late to the party on this one. I remember when Steve Ballmer dismissed the iPhone when it was launched in 2007 and actually made fun of it.
7 posted on 11/18/2015 6:43:53 PM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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To: dayglored

I am.
I have been for several years.
The technology is finally close to hitting the market.


8 posted on 11/18/2015 6:44:28 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: dayglored

Perhaps it is not the phone sales but the economy that is collapsing.


9 posted on 11/18/2015 6:46:01 PM PST by Paperpusher
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To: Kent1957
> Perhaps it is not the phone sales but the economy that is collapsing.

Not sure that explains it... the article claims the overall smartphone market is growing rather nicely...

10 posted on 11/18/2015 6:59:47 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Kent1957
Perhaps it is not the phone sales but the economy that is collapsing.

It can't be that because Apple iPhone sales are booming. . . and they are more expensive.

11 posted on 11/18/2015 7:00:16 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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To: dayglored

I have a Lumia 822 from Verizon, which didn’t ever push out the upgrade to 8.1. I did it myself by installing the developers SDK. I love it, but I wonder if Verizon will even have a Windows 10 phone. My Nokia is getting old. I want to replace it, and I can only use Verizon because no other network has coverage where I live.


12 posted on 11/18/2015 7:03:05 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: dayglored

I’ve only seen one person so far using a Microsoft smartphone in all my time.


13 posted on 11/18/2015 7:06:00 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: dayglored
What is even more amusing is this prognostication from Gartner in April 2011:


Hilarious. . . Gartner was convinced, and argued vociferously that Microsoft phones would be the number 2 smartphones by 2015 with a 19.5% market share and iPhones would be declining starting in 2012. . . and in third place. . . and that RIM would still be a significant player. ROTFLMAO!

14 posted on 11/18/2015 7:09:19 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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To: dayglored

I use Windows in all my PCs. I have since Windows 95. I have no reason to use a Windows phone. I don’t draft a lot of documents or spreadsheets on my phone. Android works just fine.


15 posted on 11/18/2015 7:10:40 PM PST by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: Swordmaker
> ...Gartner in April 2011...

I would normally quip that "I'd like to have some of what they were smoking" but in fact it was clearly some pretty bad drugs... that's just so embarrassing it amazes me that they show their faces in public.

I'm reminded of that classic video of Ballmer laughing at the first iPhone that SamAdams76 posted above...

16 posted on 11/18/2015 7:18:48 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Swordmaker
IDC: Smartphone OS Market Share 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 Chart
17 posted on 11/18/2015 7:42:03 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: dayglored

That’s a shame. I actually like WP. It’s cleaner than android, a real alternative to iOS Android is a poor man’s iOS really. I like having alternatives. I suspect WP to go the way of the Zune soon.


18 posted on 11/18/2015 7:48:03 PM PST by Paradox (Not on the Trump Bandwagon, but I do enjoy the show.)
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To: dayglored

Zunephone?


19 posted on 11/18/2015 7:55:05 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: MrEdd
I have been for several years.

The technology is finally close to hitting the market.

Do you still have a Betamax?

20 posted on 11/18/2015 8:33:01 PM PST by CurlyDave
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