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Microsoft's track record at starting and failing with their various iterations of mobile OSes is why I'll never take any mobile offering of theirs seriously.
by grawlinson 10y ago
Microsoft's track record at starting and failing with their various iterations of mobile OSes is why I'll never take any mobile offering of theirs seriously.
- pjmlp 10y agoYet many of the ideas in Android and iOS were in Microsoft devices first, even if they failed to monetize them properly. Regardless of what will happen with this Surface phone, at least from the consumer computer stores in some European countries, it is clear to me Windows 10 is the current winner for hybrid tablets and netbooks reborn, given that they replaced most of the Android ones that used to be on display.
- nobodyshere 10y agoMotorola, Fujitsu-Siemens, palm. They all had portable windows devices, nobody had it good.
- rbanffy 10y agoI have to disagree here. PalmOS was never intended to be a phone OS, but WebOS was absolutely awesome, many years ahead of its competition.
- nobodyshere 10y agoI wasn't talking about the os, as I personally liked it. The company however had a windows based phone.