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Kantar: Windows Phone seeing strong growth around the globe, BlackBerry dies

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 01 Jul 2013 1:07 User comments (3)

Kantar: Windows Phone seeing strong growth around the globe, BlackBerry dies Kantar has released their latest report on global smartphone market share, and Windows Phone has seen some respectable growth across the board.
In Italy, the operating system has moved up to 9.7 percent share, its highest around the world (at least reported). In England, share jumped to 7.8 percent, up almost 100 percent year-over-year and in France share jumped to 7.4 percent, over 300 percent growth year-over-year.

Moving to the U.S., the operating system is now at 4.6 percent share, up from 3.7 percent YoY.

On the other hand, BlackBerry saw a collapse for the ages. In most nations (check data below), the company saw a 70 percent or higher share drop. Worst was Spain where the OS went from 7 percent share in 2012 to just 0.1 in the latest report, a 98.6 percent loss.

Check the full report here:

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3 user comments

11.7.2013 17:10

2 things:

1. "blackberry dies"

2. Only USA has the highest iOS...interesting

25.7.2013 12:59

No surprise with this. I would say a 4.6% share is pretty poor, only gaining 1%, but I guess going up isn't bad unlike Blackberry's 70% down.

35.7.2013 13:20

Praises:

Android, not iOS, is the highest in sales in the USA.

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