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Microsoft got too good at killing their own mobile paradigms with rewrites to care. And yes, Elop in retrospect looks like the perfect mole. And even that is s
by Seanambers 5y ago
Microsoft got too good at killing their own mobile paradigms with rewrites to care.
And yes, Elop in retrospect looks like the perfect mole.
And even that is stretching it, all they had to do to get started was to throw a gsm modem into a zune and ship it in the first place.
Inept, is more like it.
- tedd4u 5y agoThey … kinda did throw a modem in the Zune? Microsoft Kin Discontinued After 48 Days https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/technology/01phone.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/technology/01phone.html
- Seanambers 5y agoOh, I didn't know about that one, but I understand why it got discontinued, looks like something out of Nokia's year 2000 playbook. I was thinking more along the lines of Zune HD.
- mavhc 5y agoYou'd think the point of having billions of dollars is that you don't need to give up when you fail, just keep going and gain market share by throwing money at it, like with Bing...
- lifty 5y agoYou need to have some kind of vision and conviction. When it comes to personal computing vision, MS lost it, so they’re more reactionary to what’s happening on the market.
- mavhc 5y agoThey've spent the last 10 years focused on Azure and O364, which is working out well, just not consumer facing at all.