Posted on 05/18/2012 5:49:54 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Microsoft’s Windows Phones are outselling iPhones in the Chinese and Russian markets. Though Windows Phone was only launched in China 2 months ago it has surged to 7 per cent market share compared to 6 per cent for iOS. Android is still top dog in China with 69 per cent of the market.
Meanwhile in Russia figures from their largest mobile operator MTS have been released that paint a similar picture to the Chinese results. In the Russian results Windows Phone accounted for 8.2 per cent of sales compared to 7.3 per cent for iOS devices. The leading sales for Q1 2012 in Russia were Symbian, Android, and then Bada OS based smartphones at 38, 35 and 11 per cent respectively.
Michel van der Bel, COO at Microsoft China expects growth to continue and also mentions a phablet like the Galaxy Note in the pipeline to use the Windows Mobile OS. “Our smartphone and PC-tablet hybrid, which is suitable for the consumer, but also easy to insert in an existing business infrastructure. This allows us better than most competitors respond to the consumerisation of IT.”A pen enabled phablet with Microsoft office sounds quite an attractive proposition
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Are they using Windows 8 already?
These two countries make crap, so they aren’t opposed to buying it!
Windows products are more easily hacked and cloned without copyright concerns, than Apple.
You mean “crap” like the iPhone right? I case you didn't know, your iPhones ARE made in China.
Is that why Windows Phone had like zero market share two months ago, and only had a boost to 7% market share, after Windows Phone had been officially launched (with handset makers and carriers) in March?
As if I give a smelly Obama about any Microsoft product.
Yeah..that's why you found it necccesary to post in a thread about a Microsoft product, no?
I think half of them were purchased by Chinese government to supply their hackers with experimental units.
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