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iPhone Mobile Operating System Surpasses Windows Mobile in the U.S.

iPhone Mobile Operating System Surpasses Windows Mobile in the U.S.

In just over 30 months, Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone has taken over Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile operating system in terms of smartphone market share in the U.S. — this from metric firm comScore’s latest measurement of operating systems actually in use by customers by sampling techniques, not overall device shipments or sales by wireless carriers.

Windows Mobile, which has been around for the better part of a decade in some form but has stagnated horribly in recent years as the competition has blown past it, will continue to falter with the Windows Mobile 7 operating system pegged for next year or should get out of the space entirely and cede to Apple, Google’s (GOOG) Android devices and RIM’s (RIMM) BlackBerry market — which currently has the largest market share for smartphones in the U.S.

Although the iPhone is not exactly new, Google’s slew of Android-based devices will ensure Microsoft won’t have an easy time as customers shrug off the old and dusty for something new and shiny. Why is Microsoft, a company with billions in cash coming out its ears, rolling over for dead in the mobile market?

The mobile space is set to continue exploding and dwarf the PC market in terms of internet access and use — but the world’s largest software company doesn’t seem to care. Time is of the essence (as opposed to “we’re working on it” attitudes), and if Microsoft doesn’t want to be forced into complete irrelevancy here, it had better pick itself up and go. Otherwise, the iPhone won’t be the only operating system spanking its behind in 2010.

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