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11-12-2013, 03:00 PM
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/U1ONLDOhphXQqqyqigfegw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/ballmerelop-e1350647050393.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/windows-phone-surging-blackberry-expense-190027781.html)It’s taken a while but Microsoft’s Windows Phone finally looks like it’s ready to become a major player in the mobile market. The latest numbers from IDC show that Windows Phone shipments surged from 3.7 million in the third quarter of 2012 to 9.5 million in the third quarter of 2013, a year-over-year growth rate of 156%. For every winner there’s usually a loser and the biggest smartphone shipment loser over the last year has undoubtably been BlackBerry, which saw its shipments crash from 7.7 million in Q3 2012 to 4.5 million in Q3 2013 for a year-over-year decline of 41.6%.-What makes these results particularly bad for BlackBerry, IDC says, is that the company is having a tough time selling
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