Bill Gates: "the greatest mistake ever is the whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is, [meaning] Android is the standard non-Apple phone form platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win."
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Not without Satya Nadella's Microsoft, who know's how to exploit open-source ecosystem. Even if Steve Ballmer had bought Android instead of Google, Microsoft would have sold it to manufacturers at premium without letting them to innovate upon it(They did with Windows Phone OS).
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So android under Pre-Nadella would have failed anyways. So Mr.
@BillGates , take it easy; android under Microsoft wouldn't have become a reality due to the seeds you sowed in the Microsoft's Philosophy. But things are changing thanks to extraordinary overhaul of@satyanadella .1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Further Microsoft killed Nokia's MeeGo OS in favor of Windows Phone OS, MeeGo was far capable than Android was at that time. Now telling that 'We should have done Android' sounds like convenient amnesia to put it lightly.
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I would like to think, MeeGo survived in an alternate universe with Microsoft forming the 'Open handset alliance' instead of Google; but then that could mean intel taking a monopoly in smartphone chipset considering it was co-developer of
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I like to have ARM where it is now, just for the sake of democratising computation. Full fledged linux on smartphones is taking shape in the form of SailfishOS (
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They could scale up with manufacturers like
@thepine64 releasing devices such as#PinePhone. Meanwhile, Google is moving away from Linux for their mobile devices with Fuchsia.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread
Further more, I think what Mr. Gates truly feels defeated about is actually 'The Linux Kernel'. Especially the Linux Kernel in the Server space. Servers were the one which Microsoft really could have won considering their monopoly on the desktop space.
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Naturally Linux Kernel was the base of open source smartphone OS like Android and it is the 'The Linux Kernel' which is 'the standard non-Apple phone form platform' [sic].
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