An eye opener for Nokia
For ordinary folk that own a Windows Phone 7, it was just another day living in Redmond’s shadow. For Nokia, which is laying thousands of software developers ahead of the roll out of Microsoft’s smartphone software on a majority of its devices, the failed update was a nasty foretaste of the future.
Nokia is losing market share and fast. In the world outside North America and Europe, feature and smart phones from Finnish handset maker still predominate, but no one expects that to last.
The company’s Hail Mary is an alliance with Microsoft whereby a majority of Nokia smartphones will use Redmond’s Windows Phone software.
Shnork… Source: Joy of Tech
That said, BBC brings news of the failed Windows Phone 7 update that bricked one-in-10 — that’s Microsoft’s estimate — of the smartphones to which the patch was applied. The real kicker here is that the update didn’t offer any new features as it was only designed to patch Windows Phone 7′s integrated updated functionality.
That’s just brilliant…
What’s your take?
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February 25th, 2011
Nokia may be losing market share, but it still holds 38% of the entire smartphone market, which provides a bit of padding and time.
Microsoft is losing market share at an even faster rate (percentage wise). Windows Phone 7 has less sales now than in 2010. But Windows Phone 7 only has around 2% of the smartphone market, and falling.
It doesn’t make sense why Nokia would join Microsoft’s train wreck.