Windows Phone market share sinks below 1 percent | The Verge

In other race-to-the-bottom (of the smartphone business) news, see The man who answered the call to save BlackBerry (The Washington Post)

"Worldwide smartphone sales increased by nearly 4 percent in the recent quarter, but Microsoft's Windows Phone OS failed to capitalize on the growth and dropped below 1 percent market share. Gartner's latest smartphone sales report provides the latest proof of the obvious: Windows Phone is dead. Gartner estimates that nearly 2.4 million Windows Phones were sold in the latest quarter, around 0.7 percent market share overall. That's a decrease from the 2.5 percent market share of Windows Phone back in Q1 2015."

Windows Phone market share sinks below 1 percent | The Verge