Recently, Apple reported 1 billion sold “IPhones”, which appeared in 2007. It is easy to count how many “Apple” of mobile phones sold annually, and against the background of published today reports Microsoft Lumia smartphones plunges into despair.
In the last year, since the second quarter of 2015, these phones have sold only 13.8 million units, and 1.2 million were sold in the second quarter already this year. Of course, we suspected that the market Win smartphones not very large, but so that such results did not expect even the most pessimistic analysts. For the year profit from sales of smartphones declined to $ 4.2 million, i.e. by as much as 56 percent, and then it becomes clear that cell phones on Windows 10 Mobile, almost no one is interested.
Well, we have Google’s Android, and the death of Win 10 Mobile, we certainly will survive, especially because there is half of today’s popular applications. But in other areas of Microsoft, as it was fashionable to say many years ago, zhzhot Napalm: sales of Surface tablets is in full swing — the proceeds have increased by an impressive 13 percent, so it’s obvious where Microsoft will send their forces in this quarter, finally scoring on mobile phones. Statistics of sales of consoles Xbox One and other products at the following arrives a little later.
