Market Share

Kantar World Panel have come out with their latest Mobile OS Market share stats, which show Microsoft's Windows Phone OS declining year on year in all but two of the markets their data covers in the three months from October through…

Not too long ago the latest numbers came out for Windows Mobile device usage, and while there were pockets of hope worldwide, the numbers were not that good.  Also, recently Microsoft announced it would make fewer devices and (in its…

Following Microsoft's announcement that Lumia devices sold just 5.8 million devices in quarter 3 2015, giving it a market share of less than 2% globally, it is interesting to see Kantar World Panel release their figures for the same…

Kantar World Panel have released their market share figures for the three months covering the start of May 2015 to end of July. As you may know I take a keen interest in the performance particularly of Windows Phone, which sees a lot of…

Kantar World Panel have released their monthly review of the smartphone OS market share, which looks at the previous three months, start of April until end of June 2015 in this case. The overview shows a mixed performance from Microsoft…

The news is out: Microsoft is cutting 7,800 jobs and most of the damage will occur within their hardware division. This, to me, is no real surprise. When Microsoft purchased the devices and hardware division from Nokia last year this…

There comes a point in every product's cycles life where it needs to break out and be what we all know it can be or it needs to be put out for pasture.  Guess what? Windows Phone (Mobile) is at that point.  When it was first being used…

While Windows Mobile is taking off in emerging markets here in the states it's a different story.    Window Mobile lost a million users in the past year.  While that number sounds big it's actually HUGE.  Since the number only started…

Kantar World Panel have released Smartphone Market Share figures for the three months from 1st February to 30th April 2015. As you can see from the interactive Dataviz table below Windows Phone remains similar to last months figures…

Kantar World Panel have released their market share for the first three months of 2015 (Jan through March) which shows Windows Phone making up some ground on the big two in some markets, most notably France where it is up 5.8 percentage…