14 DAY TRIAL // They say Windows Phone is dead, and even Microsoft itself revealed a 49 percent drop in revenues for the latest fiscal quarter, but statistics show that the mobile platform is pretty much at the same level as in the previous months.
Data provided by comScore for the three-month period ending December 2015 shows that Windows Phone has the same market share as in September 2015, remaining the third most-used mobile operating system in the world.
comScore claims Android continues to lead the charts in the United States with a share of 53.3 percent, up 1.0 percent from September, while iOS is the runner-up with 42.9 percent, down 0.7 points. Windows Phone is third with 2.9 percent while BlackBerry is still there on the fourth place with 0.9 percent (a decline of 0.3 percent).
Microsoft’s figures
While it’s good news that Microsoft isn’t losing users in the United States, at least according to comScore, these results aren’t at all encouraging for the company.
Redmond rolled out its new flagship devices running Windows 10 Mobile in October, so they generated zero increase in market share for the platform during the first two months of availability.
One of the reasons Microsoft was believed to fail in the mobile business in the United States was the lack of flagships that could compete against the iPhone and high-end Android devices, but now that both the Lumia 950 and 950 XL are up for grabs, it appears that interest in such phones isn’t actually that big.
But certainly, the software giant should see the glass half full because, despite the predicted death of the platform, few to no users abandoned ship, and with Windows 10 Mobile coming soon to Windows Phone devices, more people could actually give it a try. Time will tell if the arrival of Windows 10 Mobile can make a difference, but the chances are that it’ll help the platform record at least a minor growth.