It seems that the Apple iPhone has overtaken Windows Mobile use in the US for the first time, according to the latest comScore figures.
comScore conducts monthly surveys in the US to measure the total number of smartphones currently in use, so it is about the most accurate metric you can get to show the state of the mobile marketplace at any given time.
WinMo worries
You can see comScore's latest data for the three-month period ending in October in the chart right here, which clearly shows iPhone use overtaking WinMo use.
Google's Android OS is also set for a boost early in 2010, what with the rumoured release of the new Google Nexus One phone for January in the US.
Let's hope Microsoft has some serious mobile magic up its sleeves when it finally rolls out Windows Mobile 7…
Via Engadget.com
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lovlid
December 18th 2009
3. @ shambolic
Two things: I never said it was "beyond" Microsofts control, and I never said the OS was any good, like I said, I've never used it.
You do agree though, that it is on some crappy phones, but what about apple releasing their OS on other phones?
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shambolic2000
December 18th 2009
2. How can it possibly be beyond Microsofts control which phones their OS is released on? That's how they make money from their OS, by producing it for a variety of handsets. Some of the phones it's on are crappy, but mostly it's the OS that's crappy, which is why people are now running away from it in droves to the iphone and android.
Now Microsoft are saying it's going to be the end of the year when WM 7 is released, by the time that comes round they might have lost the war completely..
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lovlid
December 17th 2009
1. Its not just down to Microsoft is it?. Windows mobile might be a dog to use compared to the iphone (don't know, never used either) but its also on a lot of cr@ppy phones, and thats beyond Microsofts control. And lets face it, we're talking about a country where the people who buy these phones, have never really got out of that yuppy sense of style conciousness from the eighties, image is everything.
If apple released the iphone's OS to Samsung, Nokia et al, that would really be a kick in the shin for MS and google. It would also be a test of how popular the iphone would be if the same features were found on significantly cheaper phones, but the words pigs and fly spring to mind.
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