>>>It's now #3 in USA (albeit some of that is attributed to Blackberry's demise)
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>LOL. Did you know that most people in the USA have more than the average number of legs?

nice way to point out the fallacy of both median and mean ;-)

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>Which is just as accurate as calling WP #3, and equally misleading when you consider that Android already held >50% in most markets and now is hitting 80% of worldwide smartphone shipments. Yep, 80% as of Q2 2013. Mathematically it is impossible to catch up if they're already 10 laps ahead and capturing 80% of shipments. So WP isn't in 3rd place- the race is over with Android the winner and Apple happily ensconced as always in its own peculiar and wealthy ecosystem.
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>Meantime minnows can munge impressive stats via various means without making a jot of difference to the result, e.g.this is smart by MS: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/22/flying-high-delta-equips-19000-flight-attendants-with-windows-phones/

Having a stable ecosystem at low percentages will be nice to those trying to avoid mobile virus attacks ;-)
Those 19000 are 820, which are plunging in price here while being capable phones. Too bad that subsidizing via telcos makes stats on percentage of $ paid muddy.