Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations

Re:Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations by macspoofing on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:39PM (#5242276)

>Whilst by the year 2000 the entire mobile phone market was around 700 million.

What was the size of the smartphone market? I'd guess it wasn't that big either, certainly it isn't anywhere near present-day numbers. And yes, I am differentiating between "smartphone" and "cell phone" market. The former was small, the latter was huge.

> Well, it was a very fragmented market focused only on professionals. It was never aimed to consumers (a big mistake).

You could say the same for RIM, who was never that interested in building a consumer phone. Many mistakes were made by all incumbents..

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Re:Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations by ekianjo on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @12:18AM (#5242780)

By the way, you may not be aware of this, but RIM had (and still has, somehow), a huge consumer following in certain countries like Indonesia because of the chat applications it provided ahead of the rest. Until not too long ago it was bigger than the iphone and Android phones there (I need to find a link for that, though...)

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Re:Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations by kingr on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @10:34AM (#5244776)

I live in South Africa. We are one of the countries with a huge RIM following, you can find a black berry device on every street corner.

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