While the Windows Phone platform is commanding a very small percent of the smartphone market share overall, it is growing albeit slowly. This could be seen as good or bad news, depending on how you want to look at it, although Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer seems to be pretty upbeat on the matter. Speaking at the company’s 2013 Financial Analyst Meeting, Ballmer commented on the Nokia deal and talked about the Windows Phone market share, and how he felt that by having little to no market share was actually a good opportunity of sorts.
“Mobile devices. We have almost no share. I don’t know whether to say that with enthusiasm or kind of uncomfortable tension. But I’m an optimistic guy. Any time we have low market share sounds like upside opportunity to me. We’re paying to do it all day every day…It’s getting after it and really making sure we deliver the kind of revenue and gross margin upside that’s certainly there.” We guess by not having as many users to answer to, Microsoft will not receive too much of a backlash which is what Apple did when they ran into problems with Siri, Apple Maps, and the redesigned iOS 7 whose look might not have sat well with many iOS users. Either way it will be interesting to see how the Nokia deal will turn out for Microsoft, but what do you guys think?
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