Windows 7 to be fastest growing smartphone OS - report (good news for emerging markets)

TechEye.Net ^ | 01/19/2011 | Matthew Finnegan

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>>RE: That will come to a screeching halt come Feb 10th.

>>>What makes that date so special and auspicious?

Really?? You need to ask?? Feb 10 - Verizon releases iPhones. Pre-orders for current Verizon customers starts Feb 3.

[kingu]

In the beginning, Apple dominated the market, but that quickly changed once the multitude of manufacturers began building platforms that ran MS-DOS, and then Windows.

Umm, no, in the beginning, CPM and TRS-80 dominated the market, followed by Atari, and then Commodore, then the IBM PC and derivatives. For example, in the first year of sales, Commodore sold more computers than Apple had ever produced. The TRS-80 was the first computer to break 100,000 in sales, in 1977, when Apple had sold less than a thousand kits.