appleinsider.com - 2/20/2009
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While playing up the fact that 50 phone makers around the world have licensed the company's Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft inadvertently let it slip out that a full 80% of all Windows Mobile phones ever made have actually come from a single maker: HTC.
bloomberg.com - 2/20/2009
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Asustek Computer Inc., which pioneered the market for
sub-$500 laptops, may install Google Inc.’s free Android operating...
system on its low-cost notebooks, challenging the dominance of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software. Asustek has allocated ...
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androinica.com - 2/17/2009
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Google’s Android Market is now a pay-to-play venture
for U.S. and U.K. cell phone owners. Android enthusiasts...
will have to deal with paying for new applications and even some of the once-free apps that made the T-Mobile G1 such an attractive ...
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MWC 09: HTC vendió el 80 % de los celulares con Windows Mobile
Celularis —
... seguido, apareció en escena el CEO de HTC, Peter Chou, y afirmó: “Soy un viejo veterano de Windows Mobile. Vendimos 40 millones de móviles HTC con Windows Mobile en todo el mundo”.
Lo sorprendente del estos datos es que a los otros 49 fabricantes que usan las licencias de Microsoft -entre los cuales están Samsung, Motorola y Palm- sólo vendieron un 20% del total, unos 10 millones de móviles.
Vía AppleInsider ...
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