BlackBerry OS to Fall Behind Windows Phone in November
Windows Phone stands to gain from BlackBerry OS's steady decline.
It's no secret that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is in trouble. The company has been struggling for a while and is hoping to turn things around with its BlackBerry 10 OS. Meanwhile, Microsoft is going hell for leather in its attempt to match the likes of iOS and Android. The company is preparing to launch Windows Phone 8 this fall, and partner Nokia is set to reveal the first Windows Phone 8 handsets in a couple of weeks' time. Now it looks like Microsoft's Windows Phone OS might pass BlackBerry OS in marketshare as soon as November.
WMPowerUser points to StatCounter data in reporting that BlackBerry OS's falling marketshare may soon drop below Windows Phone. WMPowerUser says the projection is based on extrapolating StatCounter web usage data from the beginning of the year. If correct, it would make Microsoft's mobile operating system the number three mobile OS in the United States by November.
As it stands, StatCounter puts iOS (green) in the lead with 48.98 percent of the market. Android (pink) is in second with 38.76 percent, while BlackBerry OS (dark green) and Windows Phone (black) bring up the rear with 4.64 percent, and 1.23 percent, respectively. Last month, BlackBerry OS had 4.91 percent of the market (0.27 percent more than August), while its marketshare at the beginning of the year was 7.52 percent. If you wind that back a year, to January 2011, BlackBerry OS was sitting pretty in second place with 26.05 percent of the market. Android surpassed BlackBerry OS to become number two in February of 2011. This switch in positions was a result of Android's growth as well as the decline of BlackBerry OS. Windows Phone has grown from 0.72 percent to 1.23 percent since the beginning of 2012.

Seriously dude?
Meanwhile, research in motion sat back and did nothing, like Palm before it. And Microsoft has been actively pushing innovation and releasing a great new product.
I wish MS would have been able to snag Palm / web OS. That mixed with the new Microsoft stuff would have been an interesting platform! Instead, we get the same, tired Apple clones from Samsuck. At least HTC tries to be different, but that's tough when the OS itself is a copy (a really bad and poor attempt at one), too.
Hoping for MS success in the new mobile line.
Seriously dude?
Never actually used an Android phone, much less Samsung phone, have you?
You forgot to mention that there are a wide variety of android models, that will most likely fit into every BB consumer taste.
Had the G1 for a year. It was a lousy POS with terrible battery life, nonexistent OS updates, and poor build quality. Nowhere close to iPhone quality.
You dare to describe WP7 in terms of innovation and "brand new product". While in reality it is a Windows CE kernel (ancient 2002-based tech) with a rewritten Windows Mobile UI and severely crippled featurelist. They cut out all the good stuff to make it as closed as possible. Wp7 is a POS. You can´t even send a bloody ringtone from one phone to another. How crappy is that?
I would like for everybody to stop glorifying Wp7. The reality is that users like me are DUPED. We whom spend 500 euro for a Lumia 800 in februari 20122 are dumbed like garbage in June 2012.
I would have liked that Microsoft STOPPED snagging anything and for once DEVELOP SOMETHING OF THEIR OWN. The maggots!
Samsung only sells because they FLOOD the market with stuff. Not just phones. But also laptops, dishwashers, washing machines, TV, bluray-players etc... AND they spend a fortune on advertising.
The people whom care about Android DON´T buy crapsung. I DON´T!
Android in itself IS NOT a copy of iOS. Samsung abused it to make an iOS-like UI on top of it. But that´s the price for freedom. Android is so open that ANYBODY can modify it with UI-"enhancements". In fact you complain about Samsung, what about Meizo with their Flyme OS! Though i´t doesn´t resemble iOS in looks but it DOES in underlyinmg usability.
Soon they will relaise their phones and then what. If they´re NOT succesfull Apple will NOT sue them and if they are then Apple will sue their ass off. The fucking hypocrites.
Frankly, I find that IF Nokia goes down (then that is CLEARLY Microsoft´s fault) then I HOPE Microsoft goes down with it! THEY FUCKED UP, They pay!
Lol you don't deserve an intelligent response.
ROFLMAO, best one of the day, dude. He practically pwned himself, you didn't have to lift a finger. LOL.
True that. Check this link for worldwide figures:
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23503312
Or if you prefer the same source:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201107-201207
Limiting data to just North America is misleading. It's like saying Renault doesn't exist because they have no presence in the US.
Android is simply less strict on their market, and their phones have the best Price/Performance out their.
Also my brother owned a Windows Phone and a Blackberry first of all a windows phone can do way more and typically windows phones have better hardware when compared to blackberry. But i still think they have a ways to go before they should be considered a TRUE competitor to Android and yes the Iphone.
So yes, having invested almost $5000 in SameSuck products that have crapped out in
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/android-continues-to-dominate-the-market-but-whose-marketshare-are-they-taking/
Enjoy.
Number one with a bullet, baby! YEAH! Apple is officially the greatest company EVER, and no amount of Android trolls can change that, LOL!
Rough day for Android kids!