How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile

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Originally Posted by thejacer

apple released its first attempt at a pda less than 2 years after microsoft (who was the second or third guest to the party btw) and had to ditch it completely in 1998(6 years later). less than 10 years before it released its iphone, making the iphoneOS its second attempt. One of the biggest reasons was their failure to provide a sufficient handwriting recognition program (failure to innovate? MS had one). MS has already pushed Apple out of the mobile world once. But honestly call it for what it REALLY is: MS may have lost sight but Apple spent 9 years planning their return.

Yup the good ol' Newton was a bust but you can't be serious about MS pushing Apple out of the mobile world once. MS didn't push them out, it was simply not a good product.
Yeah it took 9 years, but then again what did Microsoft do during those 9 years? That's really what this thread is about... Microsoft has been in the mobile OS business the LONGEST and yet look where they are now.