They actually had a winner with windows phone in 2010 . If they had put out unlocked device on which recompiled windows apps to run, with easy updates and hals,

They actually had a winner with windows phone in 2010 . If they had put out unlocked device on which recompiled windows apps to run, with easy updates and hals, bypassed carries about updates, they would have pushed android out and taken a nice chunk out of apple share. The main android problem is the hal and the updates - and google for various reasons hadn't tackled this problem properly. For a decade.