In 24 Countries, Windows Phone Beat iPhone

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In 24 Countries, Windows Phone Beat iPhone. Microsoft and Nokia effort in improving the Windows Phone ecosystem is not in vain. Microsoft said that the smart phones based on Windows Phone to beat Apple's iPhone market share in 24 countries.

This claim refers to the research firm IDC for the third quarter of 2013. Microsoft gave a list of 24 countries, namely:
1. Chile
2. Colombia
3. Czech
4. Egypt
5. Ecuador
6. Finland
7. Greece
8. Hungary
9. India
10. Italy
11. Kenya
12. Kuwait
13. Malaysia
14. Mexico
15. Nigeria
16. Pakistan
17. Peru
18. Poland
19. Saudi Arabia
20. South Africa
21.Thailand
22. Ukraine
23. United Arab Emirates
24. Vietnam

Unfortunately, Microsoft does not provide the data in detail the percentage of market share with the iPhone in 24 countries.

"In the third quarter of 2013, according to IDC, Windows Phone strengthen its position as the top three smart phone operating system the best and fastest growing platform amongst other leading operating system, with 156 percent of profits from year to year", said a Microsoft spokesperson .

In addition, he also reveals that Windows Phone is the second largest operating system in 14 countries, namely India, Mexico, Italy, Chile, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, Hungary, Finland, Czech, and Greek.

The growth of the Windows Phone operating system has seen since the fourth quarter of 2012. At that time, Windows Phone beat iPhone in seven countries, namely Argentina, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine, India, Poland, and a group of smaller countries, including Croatia.

Meanwhile, Google's Android operating system is still the most popular operating system for mobile devices in most countries in the world.

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