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Bill Gates explained why everybody but Google and Apple failed at mobile OSes: > “In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all
by apozem 6y ago
Bill Gates explained why everybody but Google and Apple failed at mobile OSes:
> “In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win. It really is winner take all. If you’re there with half as many apps or 90 percent as many apps, you’re on your way to complete doom. There’s room for exactly one non-Apple operating system."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/24/18715202/microsoft-bill-gates-android-biggest-mistake-interview https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/24/18715202/microsoft-bill-g...
- Brakenshire 6y agoLooking at wikipedia KaiOS seems to be the second mobile OS in India now, ahead of the iPhone. I don’t think those rules apply to a system which relies of web technologies, because you have such an enormous base of developers and development infrastructure.
- tjoff 6y agoKaiOS is a joke though... More akin to your desk calculator than a phone that we have become accustomed to. They sell because they are cheap, not on any other merit.
- Bayart 6y agoBeing cheap is the greatest merit of any consumer tech.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoyou'll never convince apple of that.
- dsohn0 6y agoWhy would you say something that obviously is completely wrong
- arvinsim 6y agoWas he implying that a duopoly in the mobile space was a foregone conclusion?