Microsoft's Plan To Save Windows Phone: Android And iOS Apps

[azz156]

To prove my point, the bank in with "suncorp" has pretty much said they were never going to make a windows phone app since ita only 3% of there customers. But I asked the again yesterday and this was their reply.

"Hi Aaron, we’ve seen the latest news too and it will certainly make it easier to port our existing apps over to the new platform.



We’ll be holding some sessions with our app team to look at this and see how we can fast-track a solution. It will take a bit longer than a month as banking apps take a while to build due to security and complexity but we hope this will allow us to rollout a Windows app at some stage soon.

Thank you"

 

[scolaner]

To prove my point, the bank in with "suncorp" has pretty much said they were never going to make a windows phone app since ita only 3% of there customers. But I asked the again yesterday and this was their reply.

"Hi Aaron, we’ve seen the latest news too and it will certainly make it easier to port our existing apps over to the new platform.



We’ll be holding some sessions with our app team to look at this and see how we can fast-track a solution. It will take a bit longer than a month as banking apps take a while to build due to security and complexity but we hope this will allow us to rollout a Windows app at some stage soon.

Thank you"

Oh, interesting. It begins?

 

[aldaia]

@belardo
I remember reading this last year, the top 5 manufactures

1 Apple
2 Samsung
3 Nokia/Microsoft 5.8%
4 HTC 1.8%
5 Sony 1.2%

Smartphone is a fast changing market. Except for Samsung & Apple that seem to be well established players, the other players change very fast. This is data from Q4 2014:
1 Samsung 20%
2 Apple 19.7%
3 Lenovo/Motorola 6.5%
4 Huawei 6.3%
5 Xiomi 4.4%

wow times have changed 3 Chinese manufactures in the top 5 & now Samsung over taking Apple. so just a guess Microsoft have been bumped down to 6th or 7th. I think the last time I heard it was at 3.8%.

Just got FRESH data from Q1 2015 (345 million units sold):
#1 Samsung 83 million units
#2 Apple 61 million units
#3 Lenovo Motorola 19 million units
#4 Huawei 17 million units
#5 LG 15 million units
The rest of the top ten are Xiaomi, Coolpad, ZTE, TCL and maybe Vivo. All Chinese brands. Notable for their absence were Microsoft/Nokia, Blackberry, and (newly fallen from grace) Sony.

 

[belardo]

Smartphone is a fast changing market. Except for Samsung & Apple that seem to be well established players, the other players change very fast. This is data from Q4 2014:
1 Samsung 20%
2 Apple 19.7%
3 Lenovo/Motorola 6.5%
4 Huawei 6.3%
5 Xiomi 4.4%

Holy crap! What happened to HTC and LG?! Their latest phones are quite nice... IMHO. But I'm sticking with Motorola.

 

[aldaia]

Smartphone is a fast changing market. Except for Samsung & Apple that seem to be well established players, the other players change very fast. This is data from Q4 2014:
1 Samsung 20%
2 Apple 19.7%
3 Lenovo/Motorola 6.5%
4 Huawei 6.3%
5 Xiomi 4.4%

Holy crap! What happened to HTC and LG?! Their latest phones are quite nice... IMHO. But I'm sticking with Motorola.

See my last comment. In Q1 2015 LG is back to #5, though HTC is not even in top 10