I remember when blackberry phones first came out with their monochrome screens, then later the palm treo 650 and I used to use windows mobile.
Yes iPhone completely changed the game but Apple did not go on to gain some monopolistic share of the mobile space like windows did with the pc.
Steve ballmer, was he to blame for this mess? I saw one article where it said gates and ballmer were not on speaking terms, and part of their argument was what he did with mobile.
Bill gates stepped down in 2006, iphone was released in 2007. In my personal opinion, if bill gates was still in charge and hadn’t retired, there is no way they would have lost so badly in the mobile space, to the point of being wiped out.
And now abandoning windows mobile?
I think you can’t simply afford to abandon mobile, I spend way more time on mobile than on any desktop.
Even now I still think they should have another go at mobile. Look at the competition, Apple and Samsung and google pixel have just become greedy with the prices they are charging.
They should run the mobile division as a break even endeavour to take one last stand to try and get a foot back into the mobile space.
Where are they let down apps. They can compete on hardware, I don’t know why they stick with that stupid windows tile home screen, switch to what people are accustomed to on iPhone and Android, they don’t want something radically different.
Offer some outrageous amount of free azure cloud storage just to get people to windows mobile. Rename it surface mobile. But really I think they would have to rebuild the entire windows mobile operating system in the language in which Android and their apps are coded, so java developers won’t have any trouble porting their apps to windows mobile, perhaps even develop a tool which converts them or do research on what the top apps used on android are and pay the developers to make versions for a Microsoft mobile environment but they have to make it as ridiculously easy as possible for them to do that. I don’t know what the data is but there may be like a hundred apps which the majority of mobile phone users use, making the most popular ones available on a surface mobile would make a big difference.
And integration with windows desktop, if it were made seamless the way Apple is doing with their mobile and desktop operating systems, it could be good.
Imagine amazing Nokia hardware at close to cost price. Instant security updates direct from Microsoft.
Having had lots of problems with email apps on the iPhone ,,Microsoft outlook email app for iPhone is one of the ones that works the best for me.
Enterprise seemed to be more comfortable using windows mobile because it was more affordable and met the important criteria of being able to get updates from microsoft.
The windows mobile division must clearly be running at a loss, and yes I agree they should focus on microsoft services on iPhone and android, but I think Satya Nadella, as much as I like him, is making a big mistake. It doesn’t seem they will be replacing windows mobile, otherwise they would have announced it to stop an outflow of users. They should just continue building the best possible windows mobile product available and try and address some of the issues that plagued it, but they need to rebuild it from the ground up, how they could persist with the same stupid tile interface despite having such a low market share is beyond me. If google could take android from out of nowhere to make it the market leader it is today, why are microsoft not able to carve out a slice of the mobile operating system. Bill gates needs to return for a few years and increase his advisory role, he is quite the visionary.
Yes iPhone completely changed the game but Apple did not go on to gain some monopolistic share of the mobile space like windows did with the pc.
Steve ballmer, was he to blame for this mess? I saw one article where it said gates and ballmer were not on speaking terms, and part of their argument was what he did with mobile.
Bill gates stepped down in 2006, iphone was released in 2007. In my personal opinion, if bill gates was still in charge and hadn’t retired, there is no way they would have lost so badly in the mobile space, to the point of being wiped out.
And now abandoning windows mobile?
I think you can’t simply afford to abandon mobile, I spend way more time on mobile than on any desktop.
Even now I still think they should have another go at mobile. Look at the competition, Apple and Samsung and google pixel have just become greedy with the prices they are charging.
They should run the mobile division as a break even endeavour to take one last stand to try and get a foot back into the mobile space.
Where are they let down apps. They can compete on hardware, I don’t know why they stick with that stupid windows tile home screen, switch to what people are accustomed to on iPhone and Android, they don’t want something radically different.
Offer some outrageous amount of free azure cloud storage just to get people to windows mobile. Rename it surface mobile. But really I think they would have to rebuild the entire windows mobile operating system in the language in which Android and their apps are coded, so java developers won’t have any trouble porting their apps to windows mobile, perhaps even develop a tool which converts them or do research on what the top apps used on android are and pay the developers to make versions for a Microsoft mobile environment but they have to make it as ridiculously easy as possible for them to do that. I don’t know what the data is but there may be like a hundred apps which the majority of mobile phone users use, making the most popular ones available on a surface mobile would make a big difference.
And integration with windows desktop, if it were made seamless the way Apple is doing with their mobile and desktop operating systems, it could be good.
Imagine amazing Nokia hardware at close to cost price. Instant security updates direct from Microsoft.
Having had lots of problems with email apps on the iPhone ,,Microsoft outlook email app for iPhone is one of the ones that works the best for me.
Enterprise seemed to be more comfortable using windows mobile because it was more affordable and met the important criteria of being able to get updates from microsoft.
The windows mobile division must clearly be running at a loss, and yes I agree they should focus on microsoft services on iPhone and android, but I think Satya Nadella, as much as I like him, is making a big mistake. It doesn’t seem they will be replacing windows mobile, otherwise they would have announced it to stop an outflow of users. They should just continue building the best possible windows mobile product available and try and address some of the issues that plagued it, but they need to rebuild it from the ground up, how they could persist with the same stupid tile interface despite having such a low market share is beyond me. If google could take android from out of nowhere to make it the market leader it is today, why are microsoft not able to carve out a slice of the mobile operating system. Bill gates needs to return for a few years and increase his advisory role, he is quite the visionary.