Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81% and Windows Phone up 52% | Hacker News Reader

Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81% and Windows Phone up 52%

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This is the first comment from the article (and also somewhat makes sense?)

    The math in this article is painfully bad. 
    You can't make statements that a drop from 3.6% to 0.7% 
    market share is a "plunge of 81%" in sales.
     You could only do that if the underlying volume hadn't changed. 
    Also, normally you would never calculate a percentage change on a percentage.
     It's at best drivel and at worst, misleading.
     This article title should read: Android market share rises 5.8%, 
    IOS slides 3.5%, but that's hardly as exciting, now is it?

Agreed. Surprised "Symbian Down By 80%!" didn't make it into the headline.

Interesting: comScore had iOS up and Android down. I think all that proves is that these numbers are essentially meaningless. http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/04/04/comscore-apple-incre...

Except for the fact that comScore knows what it's doing while this article doesn't. I'm gonna trust comScore on this one because it just makes sense. The iPhone 5 came out and HTC, Motorola, and Samsung's new flagship phones have yet to be released yet.

The strange three minth period they used (dec to feb) greatly favors windows phone at the expense of blackberry. The period starts right after the new nokias came out but much before the new blackberries did.

I'm not convinced by the maths in that headline, but looking at the actual data is quite interesting - it's looking like Microsoft have a pretty solid grip on third place.

The third place will be claimed soon enough by either Firefox OS, Tizen or Jolla Sailfish. I wouldn't bet too much on windowsphone becoming significant.

What evidence do you have to support your claims?

Look, windowsphone isn't losing in the marketplace because it's bad technology. In fact I'm sure it's an OK OS, nothing to write home about, but decent enough.

The real reason windowsphone fails in the marketplace is the fact that microsoft owns skype, and carriers hate skype.

So any upcoming platform has a shot at becoming the third ecosystem, except windowsphone.

Is Microsoft pushing Skype onto carriers via windows-phone?

Since when did iOS have 47% market share? Also, who has ever used Kantar WorldPanel as a source?

Tomi Ahonen in his analyses.

Looking at the absolute numbers: RIM at .7%? Jesus.

And yet I still know people who won't give up their old Blackberry solely because of the hardware keyboard.

The quality of those keyboards is the only thing that stops them from changing phones, as for them it's the difference between consuming email on the go and managing their email on the go.

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