Microsoft has 1 massive disadvantage when it tries to enter new markets.
It has to deal with brutal cutthroat competition from its worst enemy: Microsoft.
Ms internal politics destroy almost all its successes, their politics are why theyve never really been a threat, for every skype there’s a teams which cuts them off at the knees lest it cost a division head their chance at a promotion.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey, RIM/Blackberry’s CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, “we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones” and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had
Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It’s now worth $3.59/share.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
to be fair i miss physical keyboards on phones. i wish we gave the space for it.
nl4real@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same. Colossal pain in the ass.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Get yourself a RIMjob and help bring them back
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
You could get a Bluetooth keyboard. Literally pick your size.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You have to charge it separately, it’s not quite as convenient
AtariDump@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
us.macmillan.com/books/…/losingthesignal/
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Netflix tried to get distribution in Blockbuster and a partnership w/them and were told to fuck off …
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Blackberry and Nokia were so slow to react to the iPhone, it was painful to watch.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And then, to bring us full circle to OP, Microsoft made it’s strategic acquisition of Nokia 😂 theverge.com/…/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Their stuff was better, but disadvantaged by public perception. A perfect storm one can say.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Intel thought the iPhone market was going to be too small so they didn’t agree to manufacture their CPUs
pdxfed@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
While also completely missing the boat on the potential of graphics cards and watching Nvidia and even AMD become massively more relevant in recent years.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 1 day ago
They’re a cyber security firm now. Wild stuff.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think he felt right, but at the same time Blackberry wasn’t properly marketed.
And maybe having a touchscreen option would be good enough.