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Apple has taken a huge jump in the mobile marketing share ever since it released its iPhone and ever more during the last one year. Its share have reached an impressive 23%, jumping from around 16% last year. Plus Google is right there signing deals with major manufacturers to have more devices for the Android platform (Dell for example). Of course those digits are for the US market where Research in Motion has a major chunk of the market (around 50% or so) but it continues to drop. Well Blodget was quite right about it, where in the word is Microsoft? To be honest, nowhere. So what it should do about it? As he says, Microsoft should acquire RIMM, why? Because that is the only way Microsoft can do some business in the mobile market and stay alive while Apple and Google continue their climb and it’s only going to get worse as time moves on. But the whole point is if Microsoft is really interested in all this or will it really wait for the water to go above its heads when it begins to spend even more to get market attention and share. Not sure, but let’s  see how seriously Microsoft really takes this seriously.