Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

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• bogdart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can consider me conspiracy theorist, but for me the whole story about WP/Nokia was to destroy the biggest non US tech giant, so the remaining are all US based. No one are now even close.

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  • n3m37h@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You ever hear of this one Small startup called Samsung?

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    • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’ve tried to build their own platform multiple times (Tizen the latest one), but they’re still always stuck using Android.

      They make a ton of money with their phones and making hardware that goes into the other phones, but that’s nothing compared to taking a 30% cut of every digital sale on mobile.

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  • d3lta19@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Samsung?

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which time?

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• Hoohoo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Phone companies are probably better off without Microsoft helping.

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• M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As long as they don’t make another windows 8 style issue I don’t see the issue of extra phone competition.

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• windowsphoneguy@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep

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• KinNectar@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @Hypx Couldn't a current flagship run windows 11 without breaking a sweat? I'm sure there are some hardware architecture issues, but one has to wonder if a pocket size MS Surface with a 5G antenna isn't relatively straightforward to release.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the third chief executive of the software giant to admit the company has made some serious mobile mistakes.

  Satya Nadella took over from former CEO Steve Ballmer in 2014 and, just over a year later, wrote off $7.6 billion related to Microsoft’s acquisition of the Nokia phone business.

  Asked about a strategic mistake or wrong decision that he might regret, Nadella responds:

  Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was also slow to respond to Android and the iPhone threat, focusing the company’s efforts on Windows Mobile while famously laughing at the iPhone, calling it the “most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard.”

  “I regret there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows [Vista] that we weren’t able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,” explained Ballmer.

  The company is constantly updating its Phone Link app to link Android and even iPhone handsets to Windows, and Microsoft has a close relationship with Samsung to ensure its mobile Office apps are preinstalled on Samsung’s Android handsets.

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