Microsoft and Nokia must stem Android sales to gain traction

Wed Feb 22 2012, 14:38 PM

Microsoft and Nokia must focus on slowing and then reversing the raft of consumers that are switching to smartphones running on Google’s Android OS from Nokia’s Symbian software, according to a new research note from Asymco. Analyst Horace Dediu says that Android’s global OS market share increased 18 percentage points between January 2011 and January 2012, while Symbian’s share fell by the same amount, indicating that consumers are opting for devices based on Google’s open-source software when abandoning Symbian. Meanwhile Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Windows Mobile operating systems lost 1.5 percentage points over the same period.

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