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Microsoft is currently transitioning whole desktop division to the Iphone model. They tried to succeed in mobile for 20 years now (CE release) and failed regul
by rasz_pl 10y ago
Microsoft is currently transitioning whole desktop division to the Iphone model. They tried to succeed in mobile for 20 years now (CE release) and failed regularly every single time, often times _destroying_ their strategic mobile partners (palm, nortel, very famously sendo, finally nokia). Ballmers last 'brilliant' plan was to kill their own Desktop business in an effort to gain mobile foothold with unified Windows Phone platform. Obviously that didnt work either, backup plan is ... there is no backup plan, they will simply transform desktops into disposable walled garden centrally managed phone systems full of junk apps pushed from the mothership and a steady revenue generated by all the spywar^^^buildin analytics.
Microsoft dreams about that 30% cut of every app sold, and they will murder desktop to get it.