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I hope they don't. I have been critical of Microsoft in the past but Windows Phone is a credible phone OS.
by outside1234 15y ago
I hope they don't. I have been critical of Microsoft in the past but Windows Phone is a credible phone OS.
- briandear 15y agoI agree -- credible competition is vital to push industry forward.
- rbanffy 15y agoAnd that's why the Mac came more than 30 years before the first viable tablet. No competition means incumbent-driven change.
- melling 15y agoThere's already credible competition with Android. They have more market share than Apple. You aren't worried about Microsoft having credible competition on the desktop? They have 90% market share, which is still pretty much a monopoly.
- bunderbunder 15y agoTwo goliaths splitting the market is not credible competition; it's a duopoly. A third serious contender would increase the level of competition considerably.
- rbanffy 15y agoI hope they don't, because if they end up with no product in the mobile arena they'll soon become an NPE with tons of very relevant patents and nothing to lose. With the erosion of the relevance of desktop platforms, Microsoft's Windows will become a shadow of its past. Without Windows, Office will soon follow it, pushing their server offerings in the same direction. This is really a bet-the-company situation.