A couple months ago, when Steve Jobs officially announced that Apple would launch an iPhone, many bloggers started predicting Microsoft would soon follow Apple in the cellphone market.

Well, just in case you didn’t know, Microsoft entered the mobile phones market in 1998 with Windows CE and later, Windows Mobile. And whilst Apple targets a conservative 1% global market share, Microsoft provides software for 35% of the market already.

To make my point clearer, should Microsoft decide to launch a ZunePhone (250K answers on Google) or not, it’s Apple who is following Microsoft in the mobile devices market, and certainly not the other way around.

Let’s take the reasoning further. Since Apple is a multimedia company (and probably the best at providing a multimedia experience), I bet Apple will launch a gaming console in the next 2 years to compete further with Sony (PlayStation and Walkman) and Microsoft (XBox 360, Vista, Powerpoint (vs. Keynote) & Zune).

To repeat myself: it’s Apple who’s walking in Microsoft footsteps.

Addendum 10:50am: thanks to Kari for pointing out that I’m guilty of not having mentioned Google and more particularly the GooglePhone initative in this post. More soon.

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…about blogging.

The more crap you blog, the more traffic you get.

I really can’t understand you guys. I haven’t had time to post any decent analysis recently. Hope these stats aren’t accurate or it means the blogosphere is going into serious trouble encouraging poor content.

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