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1. ] this article is about, windows phone 8 market share
2. ] verge g+ post re google mapps
3. > in 2011 global smartphone market share for the windows phone OS was about 1.6 % compared to android at 48.8 and ios at 19.1 % - AND that was down 43% from 2010 - BUT thats still 6.8 million users, not the 2 or 3 we all like to joke about ...
4. > in 2012 Q4 msft released a new smartphone os in windows 8 and several vendors(htc,nokia,samsung) released competitive new hardware(lumia 920, htc 8x, ativ s) for that platform. I havent seen any concrete numbers as of yet for 2012 Q4, but I have seen articles quoting msft executives indicating that sales were about 4x that of the previous year's q4 numbers
5. > up to 2012 Q3 gartner market share data indicates that smartphone shipments with microsoft os was over 4 million units, with 2.4% of total market share
6. > thats over *10 million windows phone users and growing*

 

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2011 worldwide market share - smartphone os , src =

1. Android 237.7 48.8% 244% 
2. iOS 93.1 19.1% 96% 
3. Symbian 80.1 16.4% -29.1%
4. BlackBerry 51.4 10.5% 5.0%
5. Bada 13.2 2.7% 183.1%
6. Windows Phone 6.8 1.4% -43.3%
7. Others 5.4 1.1% 14.4%
8. Total 487.7 100% 62.7%

 

2012-q3 smartphone shipments * 1000, src =

1. Android 122,480.0 72.4 60,490.4  52.5
2. iOS 23,550.3, 13.9, 17,295.3 15.0
3. Research In Motion 8,946.8, 5.3, 12,701.1, 11.0
4. Bada 5,054.7, 3.0, 2,478.5, 2.2
5. Symbian 4,404.9, 2.6, 19,500.1, 16.9
6. Microsoft 4,058.2, 2.4, 1,701.9, 1.5
7. Others 683.7, 0.4, 1,018.1, 0.9
    

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