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Originally Posted by joe50000
It's a dead OS. MS really missed the boat when it came to smartphones. They should have released WinMo 7 years ago, when the market was heating up and Apple revolutionized the smartphone market. Give people a choice, and you'll still capture marketshare even though your products are pretty similar.
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Microsoft's strategy of not innovating but reacting to the innovations of the competition worked in the desktop market because they dominated it so much; they could steal ideas and incorporate them years after they first showed up and to most consumers it was the first time they saw it, so they thought it was new and exciting. This strategy just doesn't fly in the mobile market because the real innovators are actually dominating the market. Without the ability to get away with intellectual plagiarism, Microsoft is hopelessly in last place.