Nielsen Color Map of Smartphone Use

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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.

Read the full article here.


Posted 03-03-2011 12:59 PM by Graham Griffith
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