Windows Phone heads right into the sub-1% market share danger zone

That’s 2.4 million handsets sold worldwide according to Gartner research. Almost every device sold was a Microsoft-branded piece of hardware.

For a company now fighting against a new version of Chrome OS that will run Android apps natively, this is bad news. The smartphone business is still growing worldwide, and while Google has used Android as a gateway platform to desktop developer support, Microsoft is giving up on their mobile phone business. Why would you make a Universal Windows app when it’s not going to run on a mobile phone? For a Windows tablet? An Xbox?

Not even webOS was ever this bad. Or maybe it was.

P.s Yes, that is the Dell Venue Pro. And yes, I agree, it was the last cool Windows Phone. 2010 was a good year.