Windows Phone market share sinks below 1 percent

[kandahar]

Worldwide smartphone sales increased by nearly 4 percent in the recent quarter, but Microsoft's Windows Phone OS failed to capitalize on the growth and dropped below 1 percent market share. Gartner's latest smartphone sales report provides the latest proof of the obvious: Windows Phone is dead. Gartner estimates that nearly 2.4 million Windows Phones were sold in the latest quarter, around 0.7 percent market share overall. That's a decrease from the 2.5 percent market share of Windows Phone back in Q1 2015.​

 

[dsit86]

Honestly i don't think MS should be totally concerned over this. They are probably putting all their hopes on UWP to succeed with surface and maybe the surface phone in the future. The Phone market is already Apple and Googles playground I guess MS should think beyond just pushing out a variety of phones to succeed.

 

[kandahar]

Honestly i don't think MS should be totally concerned over this. They are probably putting all their hopes on UWP to succeed with surface and maybe the surface phone in the future. The Phone market is already Apple and Googles playground I guess MS should think beyond just pushing out a variety of phones to succeed.

 

[dsit86]

http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-memo-reveals-shifting-mobile-strategy


"No longer are they pursuing a general smartphone user base, but rather businesses and enterprise. Microsoft claims that they will focus "where we've seen the greatest success – businesses for which security, manageability, and Continuum are important, and consumers who value the same"