{"id":645548,"date":"2013-03-06T16:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=361986"},"modified":"2013-03-06T16:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:28:47","slug":"how-can-microsofts-smartphone-market-share-be-shrinking-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645548","title":{"rendered":"How can Microsoft\u2019s smartphone market share be shrinking in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/windows-phone-shrinking-market-share-analysis-361986\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/ballmer.jpg?w=650&amp;h=600&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Windows Phone Market Share\" title=\"Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>The new comScore smartphone market share numbers are out and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/ios-android-market-share-361895\/\">the weirdest number by far is the Windows Phone market share shift<\/a> between October and January, when it actually shrank by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/Insights\/Press_Releases\/2013\/3\/comScore_Reports_January_2013_U.S._Smartphone_Subscriber_Market_Share\">0.1<\/a>\u00a0percentage points\u00a0over three months to 3.1%. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nokia\">Nokia&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=nok\">NOK<\/a>) Lumia 920 has been one of AT&amp;T&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>) top 3 models for the past two months. Verizon (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>) has been selling the Lumia 822 as a free phone with a two-year contract. HTC&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=2498.TW&amp;ql=0\">2498<\/a>) new Windows model 8X has been at Verizon and AT&amp;T since December. Nobody expected Microsoft&#8217;s share of the US smartphone to rocket with these new devices, but how can it be going down at the same time the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) market share is collapsing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/windows-phone-shrinking-market-share-analysis-361986\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/buhBGZJTjRI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new comScore smartphone market share numbers are out and the weirdest number by far is the Windows Phone market share shift between October and January, when it actually shrank by\u00a00.1\u00a0percentage points\u00a0over three months to 3.1%. Of course, Nokia&#8217;s (NOK) Lumia 920 has been one of AT&amp;T&#8217;s (T) top 3 models for the past two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}