Report: Windows Phone market share drops below 1%
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Here's a line you may have read before: Windows Phone had a pretty rough time of it last quarter. While the underdog smartphone OS has always struggled to maintain significant market share, it looks like Microsoft's mobile platform may now be struggling to stay on the market at all. In the first quarter of 2016, Windows Phone's market share dropped to 0.7%, down from 2.5% in the same quarter of last year, according to Gartner.
The same report from Gartner says that as a whole, the smartphone market growth spurt seems to be coming to an end. In the first quarter of 2015 , global smartphone sales grew 19.3% year-over-year. ...