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Well there's money everywhere - groceries is a 100 billion dollar industry too, I don't think it's the "epitome of zealotry" for MS to ignore groceries. Mobile
by c2 16y ago
Well there's money everywhere - groceries is a 100 billion dollar industry too, I don't think it's the "epitome of zealotry" for MS to ignore groceries.
Mobile wasn't exactly a hot industry 10 years ago. It's the job of a hundred billion dollar company like MS to make big investments in billion dollar markets, sure, but I don't think there's any denying Xbox was a miscalculation on MS's part.
See the market caps of Apple and MS now for lessons learned.
- jsnell 16y ago10 years ago mobile was an incredibly hot industry. In December 2000 the market cap of Nokia was around 200 billion, roughly comparable to the likes of Intel or Microsoft. Just a few months before telecoms had bled themselves dry in the German 3G frequency auction, seriously believing that the rights were worth tens of billions.
- c2 16y agoShould have quantified my statement, mobile software wasn't hot 10 years ago.