Windows Phone to represent 2% of 2012’s App downloads : Mobile users will download nearly 36 billion apps in 2012 and Android and iOS will make up for 83% of the app downloads, while only 2% can be attributed to Windows Phone. Research associate Lim Shiyang says, “Although Windows Phone lags behind BlackBerry and even Nokia’s Symbian, we shouldn’t ignore the fact that the 2% that we forecast for 2012 would be twice the share the platform achieved last year. Microsoft is gaining momentum, but its starting point is frustratingly low. Contrary to popular belief, this isn’t really a chicken-and-egg problem of low device sales holding back the app business and the slow app business holding back the device sales. It’s more complicated than that.”
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