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MacDailyNews: Is Microsoft to blame for Google Android’s virtual no-show at GSMA Mobile World Congress?
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AppleInsider: Microsoft: HTC has made 80% of all Windows Mobile phones
Is Microsoft to blame for Google Android’s virtual no-show at GSMA Mobile World Congress?
MacDailyNews —
... a world where Google is butting in with a free, open source alternative that allows manufactures to freely customize it as they like?" Dilger writes, "Nobody expects Microsoft to encourage hardware makers to use Google’s Android over its own Windows Mobile. However, one might expect that OHA members who are already committed to Android would actually express some support for the operating system more than a year after joining the group." There's much, much more in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Chuckles the Microsoft CEO" for the heads up.] ...
Microsoft plays the heavy in the smartphone wars
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... That’s the conclusion of Daniel Eran Dilger in a long Roughly Drafted post entitled “Did Microsoft Kill Android at Mobile World Congress 2009?“ ...
Microsoft: HTC has made 80% of all Windows Mobile phones
AppleInsider —
... the second day of the conference under the Vodafone brand; it will be sold exclusively in Europe by that provider. Microsoft also spent money courting another Android OHA founder: LG. That company said it wouldn't delay its Android phones planned for release this summer, but also wouldn't be showing them at WMC . Instead, the company promoted its new co-marketing relationship with Microsoft, including a new series of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. Those new phones won't be ready before LG's Android models, but were all LG could show at WMC given its high profile promotional ...
HTC Makes 80% Of Windows Mobile Handsets
Cult of Mac —
... “Without that flag waving distraction, someone in the tech media might have noticed the fact that the top three Windows Mobile vendors (Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Palm) are scrambling away from the platform as quickly as possible,” wrote Daniel Eran Dilger of Roughly Drafted. ...
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The Mac Observer —
... of its smartphones in Q3 this year. According to the article, "Most mobile operators are wary of Skype, fearing they will lose revenue through consumers paying little or nothing for calls," but Skype CEO Josh Silverman cited evidence by one carrier to contradict that. In any case, the iPhone is not only a great phone, but is also kicking the competition into high gears. I like that. O n Wednesday, Daniel Dilger wrote about how Microsoft sees enemies everywhere on a story entitled, " Did Microsoft kill Android at Mobile World Congress 2009? " Several of us here at TMO think the ...
Dell's iPhone Killer rejected by carriers as too dull
AppleInsider —
... . Were Dell to buy Palm and inherit the webOS, it would come at the expense of Windows Mobile and Android, both of which are trying to line up new licensees. Smartphone shakeout Microsoft is being hit particularly hard, with two of its top names from last year (Samsung and Sony Ericsson) abandoning Windows Mobile for the Symbian OS in their new flagship phones demonstrated at this year's Mobile World Congress, leaving Microsoft's main licensees LG (which also has plans to sell Android phones) and HTC (which makes ...
