Linked List: January 22, 2012

Sunday, 22 January 2012

“Greatly Exaggerated”, All Right 

So last week the geniuses at iSuppli predicted that Windows Phone will surpass iOS for the second spot in smartphone market share by 2015. Let’s see what they were saying two years ago, in October 2009:

Despite intensifying competition and the loss of some high-profile licensees, the usage of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system in smart phones will nearly triple from 2009 to 2013, allowing it to reclaim the No.-2 position in the global market, according to iSuppli Corp.

In 2013, 67.9 million smart phones will use the Windows Mobile operating system, up from 27.7 million in 2009. This will give Windows Mobile a 15.3 percent share of the global market in 2013, second only to the Symbian operating system, which will control 47.6 percent.

Nailed it.

RIM CEOs Are Out 

Will Connors and Chip Cummins, reporting for the WSJ:

After 20 years together at the helm of Research In Motion Ltd., Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the company’s co-chief executives, said they planned to turn over the top job early Monday to a little-known company insider as part of a board and management shuffle.

Finally.