Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams?
by adra on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:11PM
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Nah, Blackberry, ohsa, Nokia dominance, etc. were way more relevant to the markets than Windows Mobile (not really CE as CE is more relevant for embedded and tablet like verticals).
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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams?
by michaelt on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:56PM
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The iPAQ H3600 came out in 2000, and the O2 XDA in 2003 - pocket-sized, touchscreen, keyboardless, ARM-based devices with web browsers - with Microsoft providing the OSes for them.
So in a sense they had a lot of the parts of the winning recipe. They just didn't have capacitive touchscreens. Or decent batteries. Or affordable flash memory. Or gorilla glass. Or an on-screen keyboard you could usefully use without a stylus. And mobile data was slow and very expensive.
The rest of the phone market, at the time, was off doing weird things like WAP.
Microsoft missed the market in the sense they weren't on the flight when it took off - but they didn't miss it, in the sense they were at the right departure gate hours before any of the other passengers.