More good news for Nokia with regards to Windows Phone...
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2623415
YoY worldwide growth in both market share and units sold.
Some interesting things to note.
Both Android and Windows Phone showed YoY marketshare gains while iOS declined in marketshare. All of the big 3 saw unit sales increase, however. All other phone OSs saw YoY declines in both marketshare and unit sales.
In other words, if you aren't making an Android, iOS or WP smartphone you are going down the toilet. And even if you make an Android smartphone, there's no guarantee's you won't be going downhill (see HTC).
Also extremely interesting. While iOS devices saw YoY unit sales grow by ~5.7 million units, Windows phone was right on its heals with YoY unit sales growth of ~4.9 million units. Looking at the Nokia numbers from Miksu that appears to be almost purely driven by Nokia.
With Nokia being by far the dominant WP phone maker that means they are also showing higher YoY growth in smartphone marketshare than Huawei and ZTE (losing unit sales and marketshare). As well as basically matching Lenovo and LG in YoY unit sales growth.
So they either match or beat YoY growth of 4 of the top 5 Android headset makers. And going further down the list. Their growth is significantly higher than Sony. As well as being significantly better than upcoming TCL and Yulong.
It'll be interesting to see if Nokia with Microsoft now in control can manage to maintain that momentum, or if it'll fall off in the coming years.
Without Ballmer at the helm, I have serious doubts about whether Microsoft can continue to grow in both its core businesses as well as smartphones.
Regards,
SB