Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by jsight on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:54AM (#21419461)

I don't see how it could have been too late. Nokia switched to MS way before the acquisition. It wasn't successful for a lot of reasons and I don't think an earlier acquisition would have really changed that.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by partiallypro on Friday November 01, 2019 @11:11AM (#21419648)

I didn't say the acquisition was too late, I said Microsoft pivoted too slowly in mobile.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by jsight on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:25PM (#21422743)

Oh, that is a fair point. If they'd have bought Nokia before they both became turkeys it might have ended differently. But at that point, Nokia probably wasn't for sale and the "two turkeys" analogy wouldn't have applied either, tbh.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by com2kid on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:21PM (#21422712)

MS had a solid OS with Windows Phone 7 years before Android had anything resembling a good user experience.

Waiting years between updates with no news pushes away OEMs and ensures consumers forget you even exist.

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