Microsoft Sold 5.8M Lumia Handsets In Its Fq4,

[psycopk]

Today in its fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft reported that it sold 5.8 million Windows Phone-based Lumia handsets. Last year, in the second calendar quarter — Microsoft’s then fiscal fourth quarter, welcome to the world of finance – Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia handsets.

However, Lumia sales didn’t fall 22 percent as those figures appear to indicate. Microsoft’s fiscal fourth-quarter sales figure is based on a partial-quarter sales period. The company only sold Lumia handsets starting April 25, after its deal with Nokia closed, meaning that it lost 24 days of sales in the period.

Twenty-four days of a 90-day period — a quarter, in other words — is around 26 percent. So sales fell 22 percent compared to a full-quarter time period during a 26 percent-smaller timeframe. If you correct for the smaller timing, you can calculate that (extrapolating from a per-day sales basis using implied figures from the 5.8 million unit figure) Microsoft would have sold 7.9 million handsets in the quarter had it had the full time period to do so.

That would have been a very, very modest increase of around 500,000 Windows Phone handsets sold. But it would at least be pointed in the right direction.

 

The 7.4 million figure last summer grew to 8.8 million in the third quarter and 8.2 million in the fourth. It may be reasonable to expect that Microsoft will therefore see growth in its phone sales due to market cyclicality over the next two periods. That would, however, be an optimistic-leaning projection.

Microsoft had $1.99 billion in phone revenue in the quarter. That revenue had an operating loss of $692 million attached to it. If you wanted a full explanation on why Microsoft is laying off so many workers from its hardware division, that’s a good picture.

The phone revenue led Microsoft to both a revenue beat and a profit miss. If it can cut costs and keep the revenue, the now-completed deal could bear out well for the software giant.

[puli_keka]

Lumia is a good hardware but mana win phone OS ee bakwaas.. 

[psycopk]

Lumia is a good hardware but mana win phone OS ee bakwaas.. 

 

ledu ba.. win phone OS is good.MS needs more models out there..

[Spartan]

ledu ba.. win phone OS is good.MS needs more models out there..

 

it needs developer support....and Apps.....

[puli_keka]

it needs developer support....and Apps.....

+1116

 

apps levu .. apps levani janalu konatledu.. janalu lerani apps develop cheyatledu.. its a vicious cycle

[alpachinao]

Stayam raju gari lekalu evvi...

[psycopk]

it needs developer support....and Apps.....

 

 

+1116

 

apps levu .. apps levani janalu konatledu.. janalu lerani apps develop cheyatledu.. its a vicious cycle

 

we already have 1L+ apps.. and growing...

[ravula]

Stayam raju gari lekalu evvi...

 

lol
 

[ravula]

we already have 1L+ apps.. and growing...

 

basic youtube app leka paye

[Spartan]

basic youtube app leka paye

 

thats the result of egoistic GOOGLE and MICROSOFT...

 

WinOS unnapudu Native Youtube app unde... Google odu MSFT ki dobbadu...u cannot create ur own native app by using ur code ani..

 

appudu appstore nunchi pull chesi they created a link app..which is useless..S

[ravula]

thats the result of egoistic GOOGLE and MICROSOFT...

 

WinOS unnapudu Native Youtube app unde... Google odu MSFT ki dobbadu...u cannot create ur own native app by using ur code ani..

 

appudu appstore nunchi pull chesi they created a link app..which is useless..S

 

andulo ego em undi

google want to protect his market share

elagaithe microsoft wants to spread its tentacles

 

evari labalu vallu chuskuntunnaru

 

nothing wrong in that :)
 

[ravula]

+1116

 

apps levu .. apps levani janalu konatledu.. janalu lerani apps develop cheyatledu.. its a vicious cycle

 

ee 1116 number significance endi man?

[puli_keka]

ee 1116 number significance endi man?

 

veyyin nuta padaharlu

[ravula]

veyyin nuta padaharlu

 

lol

crazy ppl CITI_c$y

[Spartan]

andulo ego em undi

google want to protect his market share

elagaithe microsoft wants to spread its tentacles

 

evari labalu vallu chuskuntunnaru

 

nothing wrong in that :)
 

 

issue was....MSFT native google app..allowed users to download the videos right away from within the app..

 

and also skip the ads.....that would have dented the googles revenue..

 

anduke lepesaru....

 

frankly speaking..that MSFT app was way better than those on and or IOS...

 

Google didnt want it to happen....thats why..thye gave this lame excuse...