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Just a spitball idea, but rather than focusing on the consumer market, they could've been the new blackberry for businesses (that give employees phones). Native
by mysterydip 2y ago
Just a spitball idea, but rather than focusing on the consumer market, they could've been the new blackberry for businesses (that give employees phones). Native active directory and group policy integration would be a good solution for the myriad of third party apps/services/devices that attempt to control the other phones.
- actionfromafar 2y agoFor sure. Enterprise mobile was not really a thing back then. (Laptops with VPN was state of the art.) Microsoft could have organically owned the enterprise mobile market but chose not to.
- spacebanana7 2y agoI could also imagine organisations like the military and police paying vast amounts for phones that could be governed like corporate PCs. Even now, Microsoft has a great advantage over Google and Apple in getting meetings with the procurement people in those organisations.
- rbanffy 2y agoThat's what Blackberry did and it didn't work, despite great technology (QNX) and good Android compatibility.