Nielsen survey: Windows Phone/Mobile at 10% in U.S.

Nielsen survey: Windows Phone at 10%, off to a good start (Image - 0)

Looks similar all is not doom and gloom with Windows Phone 7. While there have been enough of surveys noting that the Os is not communicable on every bit fast, Microsoft has always taken the position that this is a marathon, non a race and that eventually the Bone will intermission through.

Co-ordinate to a new Nielsen survey, Microsoft's mobile OS's (Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile) command x% of the marketplace share. This is actually quite a jump, if accurate, from the oftentimes-cited 6% number that we've seen in other surveys. The survey looks at the last three months of data and has Android at 29% and Apple, RIM tied at 27%. Unfortunately we don't know the verbal breakdown between Mobile/Phone 7, but nosotros shudder to think that WM has made a comeback of late and that WP7 is more than two%, as the NPD survey shows.

Getting back to Windows, Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD, had null simply positive things to say. According to Sci-Tech Today, he praised Windows Telephone 7's differentiation and product integration but suggested they notwithstanding demand to "...close the feature gap, offering more sectional capabilities, piece of work with partners to evangelize hardware with better differentiation, and leverage its extensive feel in driving developer communities to increment its app offerings." Meanwhile, Al Hilwa, director of applications evolution software at IDC lauded Microsoft's Market both in terms of app buildup and quality of apps, suggesting it is one of the most successful launches to date. He likewise mentioned how nosotros won't see the full ability of Microsoft till the adjacent version of Windows, which seeks full integration across product lines:

Nearly importantly, the full weight of the ecosystem will probably not come to affect this until Windows PCs themselves are brought into alignment with this when Windows for ARM ships, and some viable Microsoft-based tablets are in the market place.

That we concord with too, fifty-fifty if information technology is nigh 2 years out. Regardless, information technology'due south nice to see both that ten% number and various industry analysts bullish on Windows Phone vii and Microsoft's plans.

Source: Nielsen, NPD, IDC; via Sci-Tech Today

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