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submitted 1 year ago by Hypx@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[-] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of businesses use windows as their main OS for people to use, MS could have used that skew to get a foot in the door with the windows phone. It would have been incredibly helpful and convenient for those business folks / office workers to be able to use all their windows stuff on their phone seemlessly.

TBH i feel that door hasn't closed yet if they made a real category breaking new entry like a dedicated business phone that was like windows but on your phone.

[-] kirklennon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Microsoft already was trying to leverage the popularity of Windows to make Windows Phone more popular but it didn’t work. Apple, meanwhile, licensed Microsoft Exchange for iPhone and basically established Microsoft’s entire product strategy under Nadella: providing high-margin services on whatever device people actually want to use.

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

Microsoft already was trying to leverage the popularity of Windows to make Windows Phone more popular but it didn’t work.

good point, i had no idea

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

Especially with Microsoft Teams. Teams is such a powerful application for businesses. It's a pain in the ass to use on my work iPhone. ID love to have MS Phone again. They were well built and I never had any software or battery issues.

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