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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Apple’s iPhone held onto a 13.7% share of global smartphone unit sales in the second quarter, outpacing Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, which now claims just 9% of the market, according to Canalys.

Canalys: iPhone outsold all Windows Mobile phones in Q2 2009.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

If you’re thinking that Microsoft’s reported plan–to pit Windows Mobile 6.5 against Android and then wait for another year to issue Windows Mobile 7 as its “iPhone killer”–sounds inane, wait till you hear what the company intends to do to its current mobile partners. It’s a brutal strategy that promises to radically change both the smartphone and PC landscape.

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Daniel Eran Dilger

Stories of a top secret Windows Mobile phone being stolen have started making the rounds, suggesting that Microsoft is worried that its latest technology contained on the phone might be appropriated by its competitors, particularly Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone. Is it a case of incompetence, marketing, or inventive journalism?

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Prince McLean, AppleInsider
While playing up the fact that 50 phone makers around the world have licensed the company’s Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft inadvertently let it slip out that a full 80% of all Windows Mobile phones ever made have actually come from a single maker: HTC.

Microsoft: HTC has made 80% of all Windows Mobile phones

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Daniel Eran Dilger

To everyone who took Microsoft at its word that it would catch up to the original iPhone’s multitouch user interface within just three years, the demonstration of Windows Mobile 6.5 is breath of fresh air, or at least another desperate gasp for oxygen before being submerged in development for another six to nine months.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Continuing upon the previous seven iPhone myths, this one insists that Apple will lose its iPhone platform to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 as Steve Ballmer rears his head and comes into the airspace of Apple’s mobile platform. That’s wrong, here’s why.

iPhone Myths
Five More iPhone Myths
Myth 6: iPhone Developers will Flock to Android
Myth 7: iPhone Buyers will Flock to Android
Myth 8: iPhone will lose out to Steve Ballmer’s Windows Mobile 7 in 2010
Myth 9: iPhone Unable to Penetrate Europe Due to Symbian Dominance
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Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Following in the footsteps of US mobile provider T-Mobile and Google’s Android platform, Microsoft is plotting its own effort to create an online store for mobile software in the model of Apple’s iPhone App Store. [Read more →]

Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Sources within Apple’s retail stores report that sales of the iPhone 3G are being slowed down by handhelds running Microsoft Windows Mobile/WinCE. That’s because the stores have been selling new iPhones to customers using the old EasyPay, a problematic Pocket PC handheld computer that’s causing employees lots of grief.

iPhone 3G sales hampered by Windows Mobile
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Today’s broad array of smartphone operating system contenders are offering lots of potential answers to a problem that only requires one. It appears the market has two options ahead: either pool generic hardware makers behind a single operating system and deliver a smartphone marketplace that resembles the Windows PC market, or watch them fall to a dominant leader and have a smartphone market that resembles Apple’s iPod ecosystem.

This decision isn’t going to be made by a class of intellectual elite, or by government mandate. it’s going to be made by the market itself. Here are the factors that will influence the outcome, either marginalizing Apple’s iPhone into a niche as the company has twice experienced previously at the hands of DOS in 1981 and Windows in 1991, or positioning it as the dominant leader as Apple has achieved for itself with the iPod since 2001.

The second segment in this series looks at Microsoft’s Windows Mobile’s attempts to “DOS-attack” Apple’s iPhone. Subsequent segments look at Google’s Android and Nokia’s newly opened Symbian and other mobile contenders challenging the iPhone.

Will the iPhone Meet its Match from a Modern Day DOS?
Will Windows Mobile Play DOS to Apple’s iPhone?
Will Google’s Android Play DOS to Apple’s iPhone?
Will Symbian Play DOS to Apple’s iPhone? [Read more →]

Daniel Eran Dilger
What secret partner has Microsoft discovered to bail water from the deck of Zune and its Zune Marketplace music store in a last ditch attempt to take on Apple’s iTunes, the iPod, and iPhone? Microsoft’s own Windows Mobile, of course, with some help from Windows Vista!
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Daniel Eran Dilger
In its first full quarter of sales, the iPhone has already climbed past Microsoft’s entire lineup of Windows Mobile smartphones in North America, according to figures compiled by Canalys and published by Symbian. That puts the iPhone ahead of smartphones running Symbian, Linux, and the Palm OS, but behind the first place RIM BlackBerry. The figures mesh with retail sales data already reported by NPD, which similarly described the size of the US market with a 27% chunk bit out by Apple’s iPhone.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Fake Apple Scandals keep getting more bizarre. The fifth says that the iPhone’s launch greatly underwhelmed. It tries to leverage the myth that everyone–including Apple–expected the iPhone to sell a million units in the opening weekend. The truth is more spectacular than the faked disappointment however.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

While rumors have long claimed that Apple has plans to replace Intel’s x86 chips in Macs with its own custom ARM Application Processors, there are a series of more valuable opportunities available to Apple’s silicon design team, each of which has the potential to replicate Apple’s history of beating Intel in mobile chips and in building mobile GPUs without the help of Nvidia or AMD.

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Daniel Eran Dilger

While rumors have long claimed that Apple has plans to replace Intel’s x86 chips in Macs with its own custom ARM Application Processors, MacGPUs are among a series of potentially more valuable opportunities available to Apple’s silicon design team, and could conceivably replicate Apple’s history of beating AMD and Nvidia in mobile graphics processors–and Intel in mobile CPUs.

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Daniel Eran Dilger

Between 2006 and 2013, AMD & Nvidia fumbled the ball in mobile chips, losing their positions as the world’s leading GPU suppliers by failing to competitively address the vast mobile market, enabling Apple to incrementally develop what are now the most powerful mainstream Application Processor GPUs to ship in vast volumes. Here’s how it happened, the lessons learned and how Apple could make it happen again.

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