Comments on: Gartner: Android Grows 8% in Global Smartphone Share

By: Sean Iannuzzi

Sean Iannuzzi — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:48:53 +0000

You never know unless you have seen the actual Windows Phone 7 OS and the other vendor’s product development schedules. You seem to be very negative with regards to the success of Microsoft.

Only time will tell if Windows Phone 7 will be able to compete as when the Android first came out there were very few applications for that as well.

Did you have the same attitude then, if so you would have clearly been wrong.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:11:52 +0000

I agree.

Either James’s statement was made anticipating that current WM users are holding back purchasing phones in anticipation of WP7 or that new users with find the new platform compelling enough compared to the competition. Considering Microsoft’s nearly unbroken string of first-gen disaster’s, I find that compelling enough to take a wait and see approach.

By: jkr284

jkr284 — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:25:10 +0000

I tell you now that xbox live alone will make Windows phone 7 surge…..

By: rickybrent

rickybrent — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:35:50 +0000

Hmmm. Interesting that Android keeps growing, and Linux keeps shrinking.

It’s obvious that they’re not counting Android phones as Linux, since the numbers are smaller, too. Kinda funny.

If Linux is really “other Linux”, is Maemo folded into the numbers for Nokia? Not that it would make a big difference.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:13:10 +0000

Windows Phone 7, when it is released, will show worse sales figures than Windows Mobile.

It’s not going to hit the ground running, and be another Android or iPhone. Windows Phone 7 is going to be feature incomplete, have very few apps, and even fewer quality apps. It’s development APIs are weak, hence big names like Skype, Kinoma, Mozilla and others announcing they will abandon Windows Phone 7 plans, even before it is released.

The latest Gartner sales figures show that Windows Mobile has crashed and burned, with everyone now abandoning the platform. But Microsoft has always done badly in portable devices. Ever since PlaysForSure, and Zune failed, even though they were reasonable at the time.

How is Microsoft going to sell a feature incomplete phone OS, and expect it to compete against the next versions of Android and iPhone? It’s just fanciful.