Gartner & IDC Agree About Mobile Marketshare in 2015 but Disagree About 2011

In March, I took a look at IDC;s mobile platform forecast for 2015 and was fascinated by their prediction that Windows Phone would be the second largest in marketshare.

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Now, All Things Digital reports on Gartner’s 2015 mobile platform forecast which also has Windows Phone as having the second largest marketshare.

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I placed IDC’s and Gartner’s 2011 and 2015 forecasts side-by-side in the table above so we could see how much they agree (or not).

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