Windows Mobile overtakes iOS in Italy

Microsoft’s mobile software package currently accounts for 10 per cent of the market in Europe’s 5 largest markets according the most recent figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The figures were discharged on Mon.

According to Kantar, most of the expansion has been driven by robust sales of Nokia smartphones.

In Britain, the software package still lags behind Apple’s iOS. Apple’s mobile software package accounts for twenty seven per cent of the market, whereas Microsoft accounts for eleven.4 per cent.

However, Apple’s share is predicted to extend dramatically over consequent quarter as a result of the launch of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in Sept.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone has additionally been creating robust gains in rising markets like Latin America, the corporate aforementioned.

“Windows Phone, driven virtually entirely by Nokia sales, continues to create speedy progress in Europe and has additionally shown signs of growth in rising markets like Latin America,” Kantar aforementioned.

However, despite that, the software package remains massively behind the adoption of golem in Europe. per Kantar’s latest figures, golem still owns seventy one.9 per cent of the market. that's up four.2 per cent compared with constant time last year.

In Britain, it accounts for a lower – however still dominant – fifty eight.4 per cent.

Its figures additionally discovered that golem owns eighty one.1 per cent of China’s smartphone market.

However, there was a lot of dangerous news for BlackBerry. it's seen its market share fall to three.1 per cent off the rear of poor sales of its new BlackBerry one0 smartphones just like the Z10.