It kills me when people say that MS had a lead on smartphones with Windows Mobile OS, as mentioned in the article. That product sucked hard, along with others

It kills me when people say that MS had a lead on smartphones with Windows Mobile OS, as mentioned in the article. That product sucked hard, along with others that sucked at the time (e.g. Palm, Symbian, etc...). The lead was an illusion because there wasn't anything good to compete against it and consumers barely tolerated it. Once iOS, then Android, appeared on the scene, the house of cards that was Windows Mobile collapsed in no time. Microsoft didn't have any kind of smartphone lead.