Scott Moritz of The Street shares this graphic visualization of the relative use of smartphones and mobile operating systems:

Google must be happy at what this reveals. But Moritz is more surprised by Microsoft's share. But he says Microsoft execs should not read too much into a 10% share.
Since this isn't a survey of phones sold in the past three months -- it's merely a tally of where things stand overall -- Microsoft's sizeable chunk of the market is misleading. The Microsoft category is a mix of old Windows Mobile and new Windows Phone 7 devices. In other words, that 10% level is very much at risk of coming down if new Windows 7 phones can't offset the decline of Windows Mobile users.
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Posted
03-03-2011 12:59 PM
by
Graham Griffith
Filed under: iphone, google, Microsoft, mobile media, The Street, high tech, tech, market share, mobile, android, scott moritz