Windows Mobile -- so cute! And still hanging around.
(Credit: CNET Asia)
The headline out of the latest smartphone market share numbers from Nielsen is that Android now operates 51 percent of smartphones in the U.S., but the punchline is that Windows Mobile still holds twice as much market share as its far more attractive successor, Windows Phone.
Ouch. That's the statistical equivalent of American consumers giving Steve Ballmer an atomic wedgie.
Windows Mobile, which used the Windows CE "Pocket PC" kernel, basically sought to jam the Windows desktop into a phone and never gained too much traction or acclaim. Yet somehow, following in the grand tradition of Windows legacy users who refuse to upgrade, it still runs more phones than the far more attractive and usable Windows Phone OS.
Like XP, Windows Mobile still dominates younger Windows upstarts.
(Credit: Nielsen)
This revelation is baffling to me. As the iPhone was first gaining momentum five years ago, I made my first smartphone purchase, an HTC Tilt from AT&T running Windows Mobile 6.something. (Yes, I was late to the smartphone game. While many of you were obsessing with your BlackBerrys... [Read more]
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