Microsoft plan to steal market share from iOS and Android by 2019 by virtue of Windows phone

According to analytics firm IDC, Android will have 79.4% of the global smartphone market at the end of this year. With 1.15 billion units forecast to ship in 2015, IDC expects Android to show 8.5% growth in shipments this year. Apple's iOS, with an expected 237 million iPhones shipped this year, is next with 16.4% of the global market. This would represent 23% growth year-over-year. Windows Phone will have the fastest growth this year with a 34.1% growth rate. That will give the platform a 3.2% slice of the smartphone pie with 46.8 million Windows Phone handsets shipping this year.

But what does the future look like? IDC set its sights to 2019 and predicts that 1.5 billion Android handsets will ship that year giving Google's open source OS a 79% share of the global smartphone market. It will also give the Android OS a compounded annual growth rate of 7.5% over the five years. In 2019, IDC sees iOS with 14.2% of the market. Apple will ship 274.5 million iPhones that year according to the forecast, garnering a compounded growth rate of 7.3% for iOS. 

Lastly, Windows Phone will see its share of the global smartphone market rise to 5.4% in 2019 according to IDC. That will be the result of 103.5 million Windows Phone handsets shipping that year. The platform's five year compounded growth rate is forecast to be 24.3%, more than triple the compounded growth rates that IDC expects for Android and iOS.

Of course, these figures are all nothing more than guesses made by IDC and anything could happen between now and 2019. Maybe we should just ask Cortana for her prediction.

Samsung Would Push New Windows Phone In This Autumn

According to the newest report coming from Korea Times that Samsung is considering to push a brand new Windows Phone, so as to cut down their rely on Google’s Android mobile operating system. However, Samsung was in the lawsuit with Microsoft for Android’s patent fee at present, so the earliest time for the new device to be released would be this autumn.

Samsung internal report quoted an official who said ‘Samsung is already running a new pilot program, aiming to test the stability of Windows Phone 8.1 system that running on Samsung’s devices , Samsung is still interested in promoting the Windows Phone’.

At the same time, the official also showed that it is certainly that Samsung hopes to release a brand new Windows Phone device as soon as possible, but Samsung would like to solve the legal dispute about Android’s patent fee with Microsoft first.  And if this lawsuit could be solved as quickly as possible, then Samsung would be able to produce the smartphone that carried Microsoft’s mobile platform, and may push this phone in the third season this year at the earliest. 

Samsung’s move is aiming at reducing the rely on Android, at the meanwhile, as the Tizen platform device that developed jointly by Samsung and Intel has not gained strongly support by the application developer, so Samsung may hope to gain the new support by Windows Phone platform.