Its interesting to think what the scenario would be had Microsoft Mobile hung in there and continued to build Windows phones and did a better job of courting de

Its interesting to think what the scenario would be had Microsoft Mobile hung in there and continued to build Windows phones and did a better job of courting developers and making it easier to build and port apps to their app store. Would we still be having this discussion about the limitations of only two players in the marketplace? I honestly don't know, but I always thought they had a good thing going and provided a lot of competition to both platforms. The bad thing is then Google and Apple went out of their way to not put any of their apps in the MS app store (youtube was a classic example), essentially cutting them off in order to get rid of the competition. My long term outlook is there will never be a third competitor to either because now they own so much of the apps, it will be easy to starve off any competitor who wants to promote their apps for another platform. They've already proved already their willing and able to do anything to keep their dominance, sans a lawsuit over anti-competitor or monopolistic business practices.