The Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile thing is a death foretold. Developers and Microsoft itself began to look the other way when great applications stopped arriving in the Microsoft store. Applications are the main reason that makes users opt for one operating system or another, and despite its stability, Windows Phone has not made the grade in that regard. For this reason, and despite having become the third alternative for some time, behind Android and iOS logically, Windows Phone happens to be a residual operating system, at the height of the also deceased BlackBerry OS.
- Kantar has reworked its typical statistics to check the health of the mobile phone market today, and the results for Windows Phone are truly devastating. In Spain, Windows Phone has fallen from 0,8% to 0,4% between January 2016 and January 2017, an unstoppable decline. In the United States of America, the drop is more serious, going from 2,6 in January 2016 to 1,3 in January of this year.
If we look at the Old Continent, the general data in Europe point to a decrease from 6,4 January 2016 to 2,7 January 2017. In short, Windows Phone has not made the cut in terms of applications, since the operating system in general ran as expected from the devices it featured, all oscillating between the mid-range and low-range, focusing mainly on photographic capabilities. That is why we could go on to consider Windows Phone an extinct mobile operating system, although it is true that there are still those who continue to use it, it does not exceed systems like BlackBerry OS, which says a lot about a company that has been out of the market for a long time, literally .