You also need every company to develop for a third mobile platform, where two different ones are already a big ask.
Easy solution would be to run existing apps on Linux, probably would be Android.
Another solution would we move to PWAs to have apps in the browser.
Both these things already happened on desktop Linux with Windows games using Proton and most desktop apps switching to Electron.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hell, even the juggernauts of Microsoft and Amazon tried, and they got crushed out of the market.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Microsoft was already an established player in the smartphone market when the iPhone came out. It was Apple who came into the market and ate the lunches of MS and Blackberry.
cardfire@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I kind of feel like MS tried three distinct times, first with their WinMo products pre-Apple, then with their Nokia partnership, then finally with one last push through the mid-10’s before Intel finally made x86 on mobile an impossibility (nuking the Atom line, selling their 5G modem business to Apple, etc) and before there just weren’t any paths forward for MS.
Amazon and FB having their own phone product lines felt like the weirdest me-too-also-ran Android reskins to extend their own walled gardens, but also felt like both threw in the towel after like 18 months?!?
MS had to be a loser for more than a decade before they gave up. They were really great at being a big loser.
It’s just … apparent that nobody is going to do this for the love of the game, and that they can only get minimum market presence by financing their way to launching yet another walled garden ecosystem. Which is exactly what we all want to avoid in this group.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Honestly I think they could if they actually invested in it hard enough but they just half ass it and are surprised when it fails
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 days ago
An investment that big would be a huge risk they aren’t willing to take. But half assing it ensures failure.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Exactly