When it comes to Android handsets, Samsung rules the roost, selling the most hardware. In fact, Samsung is the market leader among smartphones, except for one little thing. No single model line outsells the iPhone, not even the Galaxy. Apple maintains the leadership not only in profits from mobile hardware, but in model-to-model units sold. […]

You may not believe this, but IDC long ago predicted that Windows Phone would take over the number two spot in the smartphone market. I caught one of those predictions in a story dating back to June of 2011. At the time, iOS had an 18.2% share of the market, and Android had 38.9%. Windows […]

A few years ago, a certain industry analyst firm suggested that Windows Phone, or whatever Microsoft intended to call it, would be the second most popular mobile platform on the planet by now. Seriously. Obviously somebody spent a little too much time reading Microsoft’s press releases of hope and change and didn’t consider the reality. […]

Instead of the usual silly argument about how Android has mauled Apple into irrelevance by having a larger market share, a recent piece at ZDNet actually discusses the real problem with Google’s platform. No, it’s not the fact that lots of mobile handset makers release cheap junk running Android. It’s more about the open source nature […]