Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share

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More and more carriers are dumping it for Android, Symbian, Palm WebOS, etc. And then there's the iPhone.

In May 2008 Steve Ballmer predicted that they would own 40% of the smartphone market by 2012. He also predicted that the iPhone would fail.

Time to sack Bill Gates' inept college roommate.
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According to figures released by Gartner on Thursday, Microsoft's mobile operating system had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent of the market, while the iPhone's share had risen from 12.9 percent to 17.1 percent, and RIM's share had risen from 16 percent to 20.8 percent.

Symbian's market share fell from 49.7 percent to 44.6 percent over the same period — a 10 percent drop.

The open-source Android operating system did not have any market share in Q3 2008, as it had only recently been introduced. In Q3 2009, however, it had a market share of 3.9 percent of the smartphone market. Palm's WebOS had 1.1 percent, and other Linux-based mobile operating systems had 4.7 percent.

Gartner analyst Roberta Cozza, who compiled the figures, told ZDNet UK on Friday that Windows Mobile's share in the smartphone market "continues to be challenged by other platforms".

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39877964,00.htm