> There's a mild delight in noting that Microsoft failed to break into someone else's platform stranglehold. You're forgetting that Microsoft _was_ the smartph

> There's a mild delight in noting that Microsoft failed to break into someone else's platform stranglehold. You're forgetting that Microsoft _was_ the smartphone leader around the time of Windows Mobile 5 and 6, after defeating Palm. At one time, there were over 100 models of of Windows Mobile phones on the market. (Android's fragmentation problem was entirely foreseeable because it happened to WM first.) They lost the market to Apple and Android through a mixture of complacency and stupidity, which is something of a shame. WM was just as open as the Windows desktop; no walled garden, no app store eating a third of your revenue, no vendor lock-in shenanigans, just load whatever software you want and run it.