>Viv,
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>http://gigaom.com/2010/03/18/the-mobile-os-market/
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>Android grew >880% during 2010 and overtook Symbian. If you review the above link from March 2010, Android's extraordinary performance becomes apparent.
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>There have been suggestions here that the Android figures must be fake. There does seem to some question about the math, with neutral commentators questioning whether Android has indeed overtaken Symbian or is just behind it. If just behind, then by now an 880% growth rate has pushed Android past Symbian, which now is being dropped.
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>People who complain about MS's abandonment of tech might like to consider firms who hitched their wagon to Symbian.

Are these the 2010 figures you refer to:
http://gigaom.com/2011/01/31/android-wrests-smartphone-os-title-from-symbian/

So in an expanding market (80% up over the year) where every other offering managed to increase sales MS shipments actually fell by 20% ! That means that they would have needed to sell five times as many units just to hold market share.
Even Nokia managed a 30% increase. Maybe a long way behind some competitors but hardly a definition of a company in trouble...

But WP7 only appeared in Q3 so......
Anyway, no predictions from me but it will be interesting to see how the MS/Nokia tie-up pans out.