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I don't understand it, there should be a customer base for managed rather than BYOD devices where a Microsoft device should be mandatory, as per Blackberry in e
by Theodores 10y ago
I don't understand it, there should be a customer base for managed rather than BYOD devices where a Microsoft device should be mandatory, as per Blackberry in earlier times. Although not a huge market compared to the mainstream iOS/Android world this market could make enough money to support three or four devices that do a good job of running Microsoft things.
Such devices need not be marketed as 'phones' but more as 'Pocket Office', so you have a gadget that completely connects you to work doing things like Office and Outlook properly, a deluxe experience. Remote desktop should also be a thing so your 'Pocket Office' can be just another desktop window, with Synergy style copy and paste. It would not have been that hard for them to have got that seamless experience right, to not care about regular phone apps and just deliver the experience their corporate customers would want, with endpoints of their network fully locked down.
Surface has proven that MS can sell decent hardware to companies, they should have done the same with the phone even if the market was to be a new 'Pocket Office' one rather than a 'smartphone' one.