There are no official data in public domain on sales of Windows Phone 7 yet. As you might remember, when the iPhone is launched, within weeks you tart getting figures of the high number of sales the phones generate. Sometimes even in days. No such data is avaiable for Windows Phone 7 (WP7 from now on). Does this mean that the platform is in trouble? Well not really but it does have some indications. Hit read more for details.
Here's what Eldar Murtazin has to say about this issue.Usually companies strive to reveal impressive figures in media to boost the demands and show the popularity of a product. Nothing of the kind happened to WP7. The answer is obviously predetermined by low sales of models based on this OS.
I would like to break the stereotype that the features and parameters of OS influence the sales. This is not really so. End users are interested in this info, but WP7 is an unknown quantity and the choice is influenced by carriers and shop assistants. Much depends on sales strategy.
Inquisitive minds are steel keen on getting sales data for WP7 and WMPowerusers.com showed statistics of users employing WP7 to access Facebook. Undoubtedly, we should take into account that not all owners of WP7 are Facebook users. How many people use Facebook is unknown, but as sales are actively promoted in English speaking countries, we can count on at least 50% of WP7 users. By the end of November 135,134 WP7 devices accessed Facebook through the proprietary client. This number is extremely low, especially taking into account that in July of 2010 Microsoft promised to give away 90,000 devices to its employees when models hit the shelves. I don't have exact figures, but I am sure that Microsoft must have distributed a considerable amount of phones.
WP7 is hardly a popular OS and it did not make any stir. Judging by search enquiries and other activities online WP7 has been so far ignored by mass customers. In the US WP7 will take part in a battle by cutting from Nokia and Blackberry segments. On the global scale it is still not serious enough.
Source : Mobile-Review
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