Windows Phone 7 handsets not taking worldby storm

UK reseller: Windows Phone ‘07 handsets are not selling
[Via MacDailyNews]

“Windows Phone 7 has got off to a sluggish start as far as our customers are concerned, accounting for just 3% of smartphone sales and a little under 2% of overall sales through MobilesPlease.co.uk and our network of partner sites that share our data feed,” Ben Pusey reports via the Mobilesplease blog. “Symbian 3 handsets outsold Windows 7 Phones by 3 to 1.”

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I would hope half a billion dollars in marketing would get more than 3%. Android sales are 15 times higher than Windows Phone 7.

It is still early but MS is facing an uphill struggle for market share. It’s old system, Windows Mobile 6, sold 10 times better in the last quarter of its life. Not a lot of pent-up demand when your new system is selling slower than the old system.

The numbers may not be totally accurate but not many retailers were enthusiastic about sales. Not much jumping up and down.

Perhaps the path we should have taken

How Germany Got It Right on the Economy
[Via Daring Fireball]

Harold Meyerson:

It’s quite a turnabout for an economy that American and British bankers and economists derided for years as the sick man of Europe. German banks, they insisted, were too cautious and locally focused, while the German economy needed to slim down its manufacturing sector and beef up finance.

Wisely, the Germans declined the advice. Manufacturing still accounts for nearly a quarter of the German economy; it is just 11 percent of the British and U.S. economies (one reason the United States and Britain are struggling to boost their exports). Nor have German firms been slashing wages and off-shoring — the American way of keeping competitive — to maintain profits.

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Interesting that Germany knew what to do. One was not listening to the financial sector on how to run the economy. The other was holding onto its manufacturing sector.