Another Gartner prediction…

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Mar 24, 20101 min

Let’s see if this one holds: Gartner says that by 2012, Android will have a larger percentage of the worldwide mobile phone market than the iPhone, 14.5 % against 13.7%.

Reasons to doubt this particular bit of prescience? Gartner also predicts that “Windows Mobile” will have “12.8 percent” of the market. This despite the fact that at MIX last week, Microsoft basically canned Windows Mobile in favor of a complete reboot called “Windows Phone Series 7” based on ideas from Silverlight and XNA.

Huh.


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Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, and eight PCs.

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