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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake (www.theverge.com)

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Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

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[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

Part of their issue is their desktop and x86 legacy apps ecosystem was no use on ARM touch devices.

But more competition than 2 would have been nice. We need stuff to move back to mobile web apps instead of apps. Then it's platform independence and the sandbox is interchangable.

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We could have had webOS

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