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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake::Satya Nadella wrote off Microsoft’s Nokia phone business acquisition and now says the company’s exit from mobile was a mistake.
That is a bad take, IMO. More competition in the phone OS market is better than the virtually 2 that we have now (yes, I know there are alternatives, but android and ios collectively make up over 98% of the OS market). They’re all offered by terrible companies, yes, but letting Google and Apple completely dominate the market unchecked hasn’t exactly resulted in a healthy situation, either.
Source for mobile OS percentage: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ios-vs-android-market-share/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ios-vs-android-market-share-135251641.html
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An Ubuntu like alternative exists and has existed for over a decade. Canonical abandoned it a few years back and someone else is trying to develop it but there’s basically zero interest or traction.
Mozilla also tried it with Firefox OS.