That's the prediction from analysts at Gartner today. In a new report, Gartner's experts say the Microsoft-Nokia partnership will give Windows the number 2 spot in 2015, with a 20 percent market share after the Android OS grabs 48.8 percent of the smartphone market. Gartner predicts Apple will have a 17.2 percent share by 2015, just behind Microsoft, but will remain a solid number 2 in the worldwide market through 2014. IDC had a similar prediction last month.
Gartner bases its Apple predictions on a belief that Apple be more interested in maintaining margins rather than market share.
Perhaps. Somehow, the gurus at Gartner missed the fact that Apple is m
