Lumia WP Sales Grow - Dominate Windows Phone

Lumia WP sales grow and dominate WP

Some rare good news for Windows enthusiasts.

While the story below points to the fact that Nokia's Lumias have dominated WP throughout 2012 what is even more important is the fact that Windows Phone has seen significant growth this year with figures increasing each month.

Link: http://bit.ly/TRGCkJ

Perhaps even more important is the fact that the Lumias were successful because they were more aggressively marketed than Samsung and HTC devices. With the two being direct competitors to Nokia and them being great hardware manufacturers, the future looks bright for WP in the coming year.

It is clear that all that needs to be done is marketing to get Windows successful in the mobile environment. With Win8 coming up, there is both numerous opportunities for marketing and healthy competition to see Windows flourish once again.

The following months are going to be exciting any way you look at it.

What will be also interesting is the sales figures for the third quarter for both WP and Nokia as it is clear that they sold more and more phones with each successive month.

Could we see Nokia already turning the corner and making a profit before Win8 release?

I have honestly not seen anything from either HTC or Samsung promoting their WP's. With Android being all the rage, why would they?
Even in Samsung showcase stores in malls, the only devices running Windows are their Laptops.

Lulz & facepalm @ some of the comments in that article

lcbxx said:

I have honestly not seen anything from either HTC or Samsung promoting their WP's. With Android being all the rage, why would they?
Even in Samsung showcase stores in malls, the only devices running Windows are their Laptops.

Lulz & facepalm @ some of the comments in that article

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With Samsung being in court against Apple right now, they might be reconsidering their Android centred approach to device manufacturing. I do believe that Google did a lot to convince techies out there that Android is the way to go. It is not long ago that I saw Android puppets in malls leading to its visibility and subsequent up take. They took over the market that way and paid a lot of bloggers to convince everybody who thinks they know a thing or two about tech that Android is the OS for mobile. Samsung simply jumped on the bandwagon at the right time (when Google was aggressively marketing Android) and began making a profit. They did not need to spend much on ads. Google were doing it. And the fact that Microsoft and Nokia were slow to react worked in their favor.

Sadly, I think Android is actually not the OS for a proper seamless integration with other IT devices, which is what the norm is in today's world. Apple and Microsoft have the advantage that most computing is done on PCs and cell phones are simply an add-on to that or cell phones should blend better with PCs. Android doesn't. It doesn't have large scale up take word processing apps like MS Office and other productivity apps which can be found on PCs. That is why they had to aggressively market their OS IMO. In fact, I almost bought a Motorola something at Menlyn mall in 2010 with Android because it had some really great maps and the lady showing me the phone looked so damn pretty. I am glad I didn't.

Windows and Nokia have the right stuff for today's mobile computing. Win8 will show how mobile computing should be done - productivity (first and foremost), communication (second i.e. esp. for business) and entertainment (last). Not the other way round. Marketing is key as shown by Google with the promotion of Android in its initial stages and by Nokia with its Lumia WP push in the last 12 months or so. One article was saying that Nokia WPs sold more phones in its first 3 months of launch than the amount sold by Android in its first 3 months. Why? Marketing.

With MS and Nokia ready to have a go at it with Win8, my guess is that Samsung will drop Android to 10% of its devices in the coming 12 months and Windows will be the leading mobile OS by 2015 (I agree with some who have already made this prediction).

lcbxx - In business if you think keeping things the same just because they work today is a good strategy then you're wrong look what happened to Nokia when they were at the top.

Lulz & facepalm @ you if you think Android will be at the top forever - FYI I’m a Android fan and user today but who says thing won’t change.

I’m no dedicated fan if another product is better Ill moved right away that includes WP8.

McCrazieGoalz said:

With Samsung being in court against Apple right now, they might be reconsidering their Android centred aproach to device manufacturing. I do believe that Google did a lot to convince techies out there that Android is the way to go. It is not long ago that I saw Android puppets in malls leading to its visibility and subsequent up take. They too over the market that way and paid a lot of bloggers to convince everybody who things they know a thing or two about tech that Android is the OS for mobile. Samsung simply jumped on the bandwagon at the right time (when Google was aggressively marketing Android) and began making a profit. They did not need to spend much on ads. Google were doing it.

Sadly, I think, Android is actually not the OS for a proper seamless integration with other IT devices. Apple and Microsoft have the advantage that most computing is done on PC OSes and cell phones are simply an add-on to that or they should blend better with PCs. Android doesn't. It doesn't have word processing apps and other productivity apps that can be found on the PC. That is why they had to aggressively market their OS - I almost bought a Motorola something at Menlyn mall with Android because it had some really great maps and the lady showing me looked so pretty. I am glad I didn't.

Windows and Nokia have the right stuff for today's mobile computing. Win8 will show how mobile computing should be done - productivity (first and foremost), communication (second i.e. esp. for business) and entertainment (last). Not the other way round.

My guess is that Samsung will drop Android to 10% of its devices in the coming 12 months and Windows will be the leading mobile OS by 2015 (I agree with some wwho have already made this prediction).

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Have you ever owned an android device? I have all the productivity that I need on a mobile device, including a dock to work on my office suite btw.

And you seem to believe entertainment should be last? Wonder why iOS store sells so many casual games on they're platforms.

I develop apps for windows 8 atm, and I can tell you, its not for productivity in mind, its super casual, there will be a lot of twitter and facebook apps, because they're SDK is too limiting.

I can't see how usefull it will be to have so many devices that work together from the same platform. I mean, wth are you going to do with your phone that will improve your gaming experience on an xbox, maybe be used as a remote? My old Sony K800 phone was able to do bluetooth remoting without special software or equipment.

If MS decides to only allow a WP8 to control they're xbox, then I won't care or i'll just buy a PS3.

I don't have the patience or enthusiasm to work with a platform that tries to monopolize everything and be that boring.

MS has already lost this horse race, they may become big, but will never be as big as iOS and Android. I'm basing this off what people consider worth while to move to another platform, I can tell you, I wont move because I have already spent quite a few $ on my google account to obtain apps, why would I throw that away? Would you?

I was a Nokia user for a long time. IMHO Windows Phone was the biggest mistake Nokia has ever made. Samsung + Android is the future. Apple is good for connecting to other Apple devices, but not everyone can afford to have an iPhone, iPad and Mac. I prefer open-source any day. Android on my phone, Linux on my desktop.

Nether said:

Have you ever owned an android device? I have all the productivity that I need on a mobile device, including a dock to work on my office suite btw.

And you seem to believe entertainment should be last? Wonder why iOS store sells so many casual games on they're platforms.

I develop apps for windows 8 atm, and I can tell you, its not for productivity in mind, its super casual, there will be a lot of twitter and facebook apps, because they're SDK is too limiting.

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I have never owned an Android device. And I don't plan to anytime soon - unless if you can convince me otherwise.

You say that you have a doc to work on your MS Office suite - not being an Android user I am not sure what that means. I have been asking people if there is any way that I can get MS Office on an Android device and I haven't had any concrete visual or tangible answers. Enlighten me on how that works if you don't mind.

As for entertainment coming last, YES - I believe so. Office suite has been one of the main focal points of Win8 for PC (Pro), tablets (RT) and WP. I am not sure how closely you have been following developments in Win8 but as a developer yourself you seem to have overlooked this because I am sure you are fully aware of this.

The reason why Apple has been selling so many games and entertainment related apps is because iOS and OS X are not enterprise centered OSs. Not like Windows. The emphasis on enterprise is much greater with Win8 and one of the main points that Microsoft is pushing and certainly companies like Lenovo and HP ala Dell and Acer will also be pushing enterprise with their committment to Win8 Pro. Further, Apple is a consumer product company which targets the high end with its luxury products - it is conspicuous consumption (aspirational purchases) that is driving Apple product sales, and it will as long as Apple remains an aspirational brand. That is why it has been very successful despite the fact that no one in my company owns an Apple device (which they bring to work at least) and everybody has either a Nokia or BlackBerry (a Samsung here and there). And of course, everybody uses Windows and not OS X and I doubt if anybody other than myself actually knows or cares for that matter what Android is. Apple for instance has at most 2% of the SA smartphone market. That should surely tell you something. Apple is a high end consumer product company. This leaves a gap in the enterprise / business and functionality market which is what Win8 is targeting.

Win8 Pro[fessional] says it all. Productivity. And the fact that Office will come preloaded on all new PCs and Win tabs post Oct 26 should be another hint.

One of Win8's main unique selling points is content creation over content consumption. Content consumption is the main emphasis of current tablets (Win7 included). Not Win8.

Sydwayz said:

Apple is good for connecting to other Apple devices, but not everyone can afford to have an iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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You have hit the mark right there.

If anything, Win8 will be as much a substitute to iOS/OS X as margarine is to butter. They can co-exist and even make similar types of profit. It could even be that one might have less users than the other but still make more profits.

The spread that people used before margarine was butter. As it has it, not everybody could afford butter and there was clearly a market for a more affordable alternative that served the same purpose (if not even more purposes).