"Android Too Wild, Apple Too Expensive" Which One You Choose?

After Microsoft's latest mobile platform, Windows Phone 8, launched, what the boss said the software giant is about two rival magnitude, Android and iOS? In an interview with Reid Hoffman, published by the website TechCrunch, Wednesday (14/11/2012), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Android was too "wild and out of control," while Apple's "too tight and too expensive".

Ballmer refers to the fragmentation of the Android platform that leads to compatibility problems, and malware spread.

Apple calls the attractive price is too expensive for mobile devices, the range of U.S. $ 1,000 for a single unit of the iPhone in several countries, such as Russia.

"How to get quality without having to pay expensive or are in too tightly controlled ecosystem?" he asked. He then mentioned that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform itself provides the best of both worlds.

Still, Ballmer acknowledged that lagged to date with the global smartphone market share is only 2.4 percent in the third quarter of 2012, according to data from Gartner.

He said that Windows Phone needs time to prove itself. "The challenge is to reach 10 percent of the smartphone market, and we will try to get 15 percent, then 20 percent. Never dreamed we could be 60 percent in one day."

As an illustration of the position of the current Windows Phone in the mobile industry, the following data from Gartner, published November 2012.