Microsoft had everything to become what Android is today for the smartphone market, but History shows that it was not like that. Leaving the iPhone aside, Android is the operating system that dominates the mobile market and Microsoft didn't know how to capitalize on the opportunity despite its trajectory in the desktop operating system market.
One of the co-founders of Android is very clear who is the culprit of Microsoft's failure in the smartphone operating system market: Mine rich he believes.
Google acquired Android Inc. in 2005 for $50 million
Miner posted his post in response to an article that references comments Bill Gates himself said in an interview with Julia Hartz (Events CEO) five years ago. In this interview, Gates stated that Android is the standard in mobiles (leaving the iPhone aside) and commented that The most natural thing was that Microsoft would have won this market.
Gates explained that in the world of software, winner takes all and in the case of mobile operating systems, there is only space for one that is not Apple's. Given this, he asserts that The biggest mistake you made It is a mismanagement that ended up causing Microsoft not today that Android is for the smartphone market.
Returning to the idea that software is a winner-takes-all market, Gates goes further and comments that if you offer half or even 90% of the applications as your competitor, You are condemned to total perdition. This ends your comment by referring to the estimated market value they lost due to poor decisions: $400,000 million.
In the message published by mine Windows Mobile In 2002, but he feared that Microsoft had come to control the market. Miner helped create Android to prevent the company from also pursuing mobile markets, so he says Gates' statements are amusing.
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