Gartner Predicts Microsoft Will Dominate Smart Phone Market

[Ed Hardy]

A Gartner vice president and research fellow has used his speech at a company symposium to outline why he believes Microsoft's Windows Mobile will come to dominate the smart phone market.

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/Ga...e_Smart_Phones

[reidme]

He's really going out on a limb isn't he! Of course Microsoft will eventually dominate. Eventually we'll all drive M$ cars, shop at M$Mart, and wear M$ underwear. It's the future. We will be assimilated. Resistance is futile...

[Mike Cane]

My own research tells me that *whatever* market MS enters, Gartner will follow like a lapdog with "research" stating that MS will "dominate" that market.

Get a new tune, Gartner!

If this was the early 80s, they'd be saying IBM would "dominate" desktop PCs -- forever! (Hell, they probably did back then!)

[Fzara2000]

Yeah right just like they said Windows CE was going to dominate the market next year and that palm OS was history back in 1997.

[imported_PowerBook]

Bill Gates has doughnut.
Gartner research shows Microsoft will surplant Krispy Kreme by 2006.
Film at 11.

[drex_22]

[i]Curiously, the Palm OS, which is ion [sic] a large majority of the smart phones sold in the U.S., doesn't appear to have been mentioned as a contender.
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That's because Palm's dominance has been slowly shrinking for the past 4 years. Yes, they'll stay in the game, but dominate? One only has to look at the trend in market share, and its obvious that Microsoft's has been steadily growing, eating up Palm's. Palm is the next Apple. Yes, they'll build some cool stuff and they will have their fanatics, but they won't dominate. Palm's business strategy, if you can call it that, doesn't seek to 'own the market.' Microsoft thinks global and always has--I commend them for it, and I live in Microsoft country (WA) and have personally benefited from Microsoft's success, so I laugh at all the "M$" haters.


Drex

[imported_Edward Green]

I would put more money on Mike Cane than Microsoft.

It seems that the handheld device market is not going to be uniform worldwide.

When devices like the Treo 600, O2 XDA II, and the P900 are cheaper than non phone handhelds of the same specification in Europe I can't see people buying traditional 'PDA's for much longer.

However smart mobile devices unlike PDA's are not the same in the US as Europe / North Africa due to different standards and systems.

AT the moment I think Series 60 and UIQ front ended symbian phones blow the SPV and XDA out the water. The Treo manages to survive only because it falls some where inbetween the two.

[palm4x]

Hmm. I thought that Gartner was discredited long ago.

[T. Lewis]

It seems that the handheld device market is not going to be uniform worldwide.

I agree. Europe will support its own "standard", Nokia System 60 (Symbian) and its descendents. This already dominates there, no reason to switch.

[pocketfactory]

I predict Gartner will still be making these same predictions in 2007.