By: iPadfanzz staff on March 28, 2013
Microsoft mouthpiece corporate vice president of corporate communications Frank X Shaw says Windows Phone is outselling the iPhone in seven nations. Six were Argentina, India, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine, while the seventh "country" was actually a group of smaller nations that the IDC categorizes as "rest of central and eastern Europe."
“Windows Phone has reached 10 per cent market share in a number of countries, and according to IDC’s latest report, has shipped more than Blackberry in 26 markets and more than iPhone in seven,” Shaw said in a blog.
While the report showed Android to be the king of virtually every region, the report also revealed interesting results for Windows Phones.
The report indicates that Windows Phone outsold the iPhone in a smattering of emerging markets, where the high price of iPhone creates hindrance. The fact that Windows Phone has outshipped the iPhone in these markets is not surprising, as Argentina, Russia, Poland, Ukraine and "rest of central and eastern Europe" classify as emerging markets, while India and South Africa are newly industrialized.
It must be noted that success of Windows Phone in a market like India is pretty big as it is a huge smartphone market, but other regions like Ukraine, South Africa, and "rest of... Europe" (smaller countries) are all markets of 100,000 or less smartphone units annually.
IDC also noted that either Windows Phone or Windows Mobile was present on 17.9 million phones. For a little perspective, 23.9 million Symbian phone shipped in the same time, as did 32.5 million BlackBerries and 135.9 million iPhones. Android ruled the roost with 497.1m shipped.
Overall, it seems like that to a very little extent it is good news for Microsoft as it is obvious that Microsoft is doing good in poor nations.
