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[News] Linux Grows in Mobile, Game Over for Windows Mobile (Next Up: Desktop)

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Roy Schestowitz

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Nov 22, 2009, 7:07:39 PM11/22/09
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Smartphones’ ecosystem dilemma

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| Why is the Motorola Droid apparently
| gaining traction in the smartphone market,
| when Microsoft and Nokia are failing so
| miserably?
|
| The Droid, built on Google’s Android mobile
| operating system, sold 250,000 in its first
| week on the market. That’s way behind the
| 1.6 million iPhone 3Gs sold in the first
| week after its launch, but it’s still enough
| for Motorola to see possible salvation after
| years of decline and for Google to feel
| self-congratulatory about its venture into
| mobile.
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http://blogs.reuters.com/commentaries/2009/11/20/the-ecosystem-dilemma/

How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile

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| Microsoft Windows continues to dominate the
| PC market with a 90 percent market-share
| stronghold, but when it comes to
| smartphones, Microsoft is getting beat up
| worse than a mustachioed villain in a Jackie
| Chan movie.
|
| Windows Mobile has lost nearly a third of
| its smartphone market share since 2008,
| research firm Gartner reports. Windows
| Mobile had 11 percent of the global
| smartphone market in the third quarter of
| 2008, according to Gartner, and last quarter
| Windows Mobile's market share plummeted to
| 7.9 percent.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/19/microsoft.windows.mobile/

Microsoft loses more mobile share, RIM looks resilient

http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2009/11/16/microsoft-loses-mobile-share-rim-looks-resilient.htm

Microsoft risks losing its grip in smartphone revolution

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/1120/1224259174116.html


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Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share

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