All Business: The Best Small Business Mobile Platform? Not Windows Phone 7
Matthew McKenzie quotes market data from Canalys, showing that while Android, Apple’s iOS and BlackBerry are all healthy and growing, Microsoft’s mobile platform is losing ground so may not be a good bet as part of a long-term mobile strategy.
“Smartphone market-share discussions are usually interesting to two groups of people: industry analysts and fanboys. But there are exceptions.
You’ll find one of them in Canalys’ recent worldwide smartphone shipments report. According to its numbers, Google’s Android OS is now the world’s fastest-shipping smartphone OS. In Q4 2009 Android shipped on just 4.7 million devices. In Q4 that number was 33.3 million — a year-over-year growth rate of 615 percent.”