Steve Ballmer continues to insist Windows Phone can be the number three platform in the smartphone market.
In a presentation at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting, Ballmer said, "I think we're in absolute good shape in order to be a very strong third ecosystem in the smartphone world."
He appears to be pinning his hopes on Microsoft's primary partner in the platform, Nokia, ... [ read the full article ]
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IMO, WP7 will easily control 15-20 percent market share by 2015.
If that is good enough to beat RIM for third place more power to them. RIM has been putting in their best team effort to lose market share and customers for 3 years now lol
At least its a realistic goal than saying we want to be #1. What really should be the focus tho is making the other 2 dwindle in #s so that it's a close race between the 3. That said, MS better have reliable handsets that can handle the windows platform they are preparing to bring out, and having it merge with Windows 8 and XBL is an interesting idea... But if done wrong it will severely bite them in the.
I am privy to one specific instance of PDA market. When Compaq came out with their first version of "Tranflective" lcd in iPaq pda with a version of Win CE it was a grand success. Visibility of the colored screen in bright light or outdoors was a problem for ALL manufacturers. As a matter of fact it is still a problem for ALL mobile phones, even today.
In reality it was originally announced to be a Linux based pda. M$ forced them to switch to Win CE by threatening to change the pricing of the OS on their desktop PCs.
On top of that as an accommodation they stopped support on a CPU used by the then MOST popular Japanese PDA manufacturer. To top it all they required royalty payments for TOTAL number of PDAs manufactured by them regardless of OS / Language, with a guaranteed minimum payment per language which simply was exorbitant. The Japanese manufacturer simply dropped out of the PDA business.
Who is to say they will not use the same strategy on those who have a stake in Android + Win Smartphones as well as netbooks / laptops and desktop PCs ?
