Reality in the Smartphone Device Space
I realize that there is quite a bit of hysteria around a certain device in the mobility space these days, so I thought it might be a good idea to drop some facts about the mature and extensive success of the Windows Mobile platform ... all this with no help from a fawning media providing untold billions of dollars worth of free marketing !
- Microsoft sold 11 million Windows Mobile licenses in FY07, double the number sold in FY06
- Microsoft solidly expects to sell 20 million Windows Mobile licenses in FY08
- The HTC Touch alone sold over 2 million units just this past year
- Windows Mobile continues to gain market share in enterprise businesses
- RIM experienced 6 major outages in the previous 12 months compared to ZERO for Windows Mobile
- Windows Mobile is one of the most diverse platforms available offering 50 device partners and 140+ phone designs worldwide
- Windows Mobile devices have consistent APIs from device to device (by comparison, Java is very fragmented)
- Momentum: 14.3 million devices shipped in 2007 and YOY growth of close to 100%. (Gartner, Mar 2008)
- Secure: By comparison, no support for natively secure data on an iPhone with file or disk encryption (Forrester, Dec 2007)
