IDC: Android and iOS to stay on top by 2016, WP to progress slowly
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- Ingotian
- n$e
- 12 Dec 2012
The quality of the operating system is a red herring. It only has to be good enough (some would say DOS and early Windows was not even that) What matters is the number of manufacturers and developers adopting the platform. On PCs that is what made Windows and all but killed the Mac and did kill Atari, Commodore, Acorn etc. Android and the licensing of ARM designs make them the new Wintel but more so because both are available to third party developers in a way that neither x86 nor Windows were on PCs. The only mitigation is that the rise of open standards means the lock-in to individual platforms is not as strong as it was so it is possible minority platforms will persist much longer.
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- Anonymous
- t7C
- 09 Dec 2012
Windows phone sucks ! It was never a phone company, coz of apple they starred doing it. Android will sell as its cheap, Apple will sell at its best …. Windows will continue to suck…. just a horrible horrible product.
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- JRC
- 9C$
- 07 Dec 2012
I think windows will overtake IOs. IOs will go somewhere near 10%, WP near 15%, Android 65%, others 10%.
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- QS6
- 06 Dec 2012
AnonD-78488, 06 Dec 2012Windows Phone will definitely grow and mature to take over iOS..Agree
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- KIB
- 06 Dec 2012
Anonymous, 05 Dec 2012android wp rim and ios may stay for a while and may contin... moreexactly. i thing ubuntu ppl will try to bring a smartphone os
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- tridib
- rKd
- 06 Dec 2012
i think tizen will rock.with sammys amazing hardwre it wil give tough fight to wp and bb..
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- AnonD-78488
- PPg
- 06 Dec 2012
Windows Phone will definitely grow and mature to take over iOS..
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- Anonymous
- 7t5
- 05 Dec 2012
android wp rim and ios may stay for a while and may continue to grow or other wise who knows some better **open os** may come with better features and sweap them all
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- World Man
- fmV
- 05 Dec 2012
I am sure that the picture would be different when the rest of the world is considered...
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- AnonD-79437
- iLH
- 05 Dec 2012
#1 Android
#2 iOS
#3 empty
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WP out of challenge and also maybe will take over by new OS's like MeGoo .
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- AnonD-41916
- J9y
- 05 Dec 2012
microsoft craphone is still crap.
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- AnonD-49453
- 7tA
- 05 Dec 2012
IOS I the best......
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- Anonymous
- tRg
- 05 Dec 2012
Ios was one of the worst communist OS. It's also not user friendly, lots of thing not able to do as m wish. For some moment I thought apple founders or the company came from Cuba or North Korea.
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- AnonD-85775
- vGc
- 05 Dec 2012
iOS is the best
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- AnonD-70029
- dNA
- 05 Dec 2012
'that red band for Windows WILL be way wider for 2016...' - Anon
LOL - of course it will....
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- AnonD-46560
- t1$
- 05 Dec 2012
Nokia means No-Apps.
Be it symbian, or be it Windows! Sucks...
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- Anonymous
- gyn
- 05 Dec 2012
that red band for Windows WILL be way wider for 2016...
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- Anonymous
- PvY
- 05 Dec 2012
AnonD-58835, 05 Dec 2012I completely disagree with this report. It is completely FA... moreactually android dominateds all three markets
low (cheap 99$ androids, mid (s2, galaxy nexus, galaxy ace 2, high, one x+ s3 and note 2)
note 2 alone will probably outsell ALL windows phone put together
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- Anonymous
- PvY
- 05 Dec 2012
AnonD-14563, 05 Dec 2012Sure. Let's trust IDC predictions which proved to be a bunc... morenokia predictions all mroe funny
they should be selling 30 m windows phone per quarter by now.
replacing symbian, they only sold 2.9m even less than BADA
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- AnonD-77351
- p@B
- 05 Dec 2012
IDC (I don't care) about IDC