[huxley]

Statcounter shouldn't ever be seen as representing marketshare or installed base, rather it represents usage share. If you buy a device but put in a drawer, it counts as market share but since it isn't being used day by day, it wouldn't count as usage share.

I wonder if the reason Nokia hasn't been crowing about the marketshare numbers in Europe is that it is a Pyrrhic victory won with massive discounts. If they are displacing their own feature phones (but without the profit margin), it would create the impression of an installed base, when people are primarily using it for telephony and texting.