Bill Gates admits he didn't know how to keep up with Windows Mobile
During an interview, Bill Gates assures that they made a mistake with Windows Mobile and that it did not know how to measure up, causing it to stay out of the market.
The desktop operating system par excellence is Windows. Bill Gates copied Steve Jobs's operating system and made it easier for the user. The story of how Windows and Microsoft were born is well known to any computer lover. But, that success has not been repeated in smartphones, despite the attempt. Something that weighs on Gates, as he has acknowledged in an interview for Village Global.
It's rare for a great manager to admit that he was wrong, but Gates has. He has acknowledged that I manage very badly the entry into the smartphone market. He also highlights that his mismanagement caused Microsoft to lose the race for smartphone operating systems. It also highlights that the software industry is a "market that takes everything"
Bill Gates acknowledges that he failed to enter the smartphone market
Above all, he stressed that it should have been Microsoft and not Apple, the architecture of a standard operating system. He also says that Microsoft has lost about $ 400 billion because of him. which is what it calculates that Android is worth.
Apple was smart and was ahead of the market, adapting its operating system to touchscreen smartphones. At that time Android did not exist and Windows Mobile was a platform, already in the implementation phase on smartphones.
The mistake was to despise what was done by Apple, even making fun of the iPhone for not having a physical keyboard. At the same time that Google was developing a mobile operating system. Andy Rubin was the leader of the Android project, the standard operating system on smartphones.
Google in 2005 bought Android for 50 million dollars, the operating system that was going to compete with Windows Mobile. Today that figure, everything is said, is small change. And we all know the story. Android is the king of the market, destroying Windows Mobile, which no longer exists. Microsoft was not very smart either and there was no compatibility with Android applications, something that ended up sinking the operating system.
Microsoft takes comfort in other markets
Bill Gates pointed out that Windows applications and his Office suite work very well. He also highlights that the cloud business is growing, but not having an alternative to iOS is an unforgivable mistake.
And is that, ten years after the arrival of Android to the market, it already has more than 2 billion users per month. To give us an idea, it is double the number of Windows 000 users.
Source: wccftech
