Phone Windows 7, Microsoft's operating system for mobile phones will surpass the IOS used by Apple in the iPhone, the contest for deputy leadership of the platforms for smartphones. The bet is IDC believes that by 2015, with the help of Nokia, Microsoft will be just behind the Android - Google - list of the most widely used among smartphones.
At stake, IDC, Windows Phone, which today has 3.8% share of the smartphone market, will 20.3% in 2015. IOS will grow in absolute number of units, but will grow less than the total market. Thus, its share will decline from 18.2% to 16.9%, IDC believes.
According to IDC, Windows Phone should benefit from the decision of the cellphone maker in the world, Nokia, to adopt the system. With that, Microsoft will inherit almost the entire market that is currently reserved for the Symbian platform, Nokia's current smartphones.
Currently, Symbian controls 20.6% of the total market for smart phones. In 2015, it leaves only a trace of 0.1%, with the few devices manufactured by the end of 2011 in stock. In 2012, Nokia should just go on to sell smartphones with Windows system.
Google should expand its leadership, from 38.9% to 43.8%.
