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Ballmer's "me too!" but always late for the party legacy.
by gesman 9y ago
Ballmer's "me too!" but always late for the party legacy.
- criddell 9y agoLate? Windows Mobile pre-dates iOS by 5 years. It's interesting that their first attempts were shrinking desktop Windows UI to work on a phone. That failed so they came up with a phone UI and expanded it to work on the desktop. What's the third act?
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoYes but Windows Mobile was awful, the reason Apple did so well with the iPhone was that the rest of the industry had stagnated.
- dageshi 9y agoIt was the same as all Microsoft products, it was aimed at businesses primarily where they could leverage all the features that come with a Microsoft domain e.g. Exchange integration. I worked at a Housing Association (UK) and we issued all our tradesmen with Windows Mobile smartphones. They received & completed all their jobs via a custom app we wrote for it, all pre iPhone. Microsoft has never been a company that targets consumers directly in my opinion, they're a company that targets business first and foremost and due to network effects they effectively got most of the consumer desktop market as well.
- Roboprog 9y agoI guess we can call the mobile market "Revenge of the Consumers" - "No, Microsoft, F--k you." While most people just accept the OS that comes on a PC if they buy one, I don't think they were too anxious to repeat the experience when they clearly had other choices.
- Roboprog 9y ago"The experience" - starting with the constant pop-up nagware, moving on to the dismal performance, following with the whack-a-mole update of the week "thrills", etc.
- deciplex 9y ago> What's the third act? Hopefully exit the OS business altogether and focus on Office. I kid, of course, but a man can dream.
- CamperBob2 9y agoLate? Windows Mobile pre-dates iOS by 5 years. So what's their excuse for failing?
- anjc 9y agoMicrosoft had/have an excellent mobile OS and Windows phones available and was gaining traction. All the promise of UWP and integration between W10 and the Band and WP and Xbox and so on disappeared under Satya, not Ballmer. The Band is the most bizarre deprecation for me, seeing as there's still nothing on the market which does everything it did.
- criddell 9y ago> The Band is the most bizarre deprecation for me Why? They didn't sell.
- ZanyProgrammer 9y agoI always thought MSFT should've taken the Zune, stick a cellular radio in it, and call that Windows Phone.
- Kipters 9y agoThey did: Windows Phone 7 was basically a Zune with a cellular radio
- ZanyProgrammer 9y agoStill a few years too late :(