{"id":658464,"date":"2013-05-16T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=541194"},"modified":"2013-05-16T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:35:25","slug":"windows-phones-big-problem-most-oems-see-it-as-an-afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658464","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone\u2019s big problem: Most OEMs see it as an afterthought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/windows-phone-market-share-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/ballmerwindowsphones.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows Phone Market Share Analysis\" title=\"Windows Phone Market Share Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/smartphone-shipments-q1-2013-idc\/\">latest numbers from IDC<\/a> show that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone\">Windows Phone<\/a>\u00a0is still having a tough time gaining traction, as the operating system was found on just 3.2% of all smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2013. And things could look even worse for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> in the second quarter since Windows Phone devices will have to go toe-to-toe with heavyweight flagships being rolled out by both Samsung and HTC, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/14\/blackberry-q5-price-analysis\/\">the low-cost BlackBerry Q5 that BlackBerry is aggressively pushing into emerging markets<\/a>. In fact, the only company that&#8217;s really devoting a lot of resources toward manufacturing and publicizing Windows Phone devices is Nokia, which really has no choice since it has chosen Windows Phone as its exclusive operating system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/windows-phone-market-share-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/u3TjES9ixgg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest numbers from IDC show that Windows Phone\u00a0is still having a tough time gaining traction, as the operating system was found on just 3.2% of all smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2013. And things could look even worse for Microsoft in the second quarter since Windows Phone devices will have to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658464","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}