Re:Microsoft Wants to Embed Windows Phone into Every Android...
by josteink on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:17AM
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What Microsoft is slowly discovering is what their competitors discovered back in the 90s: how hard it is to enter an established market.
Back then Apple was also ahead of the curve for a long time and carved out is own niche market, slowly to see a competitor take the mainstream market share.
No matter how good your solution is, no matter if it is technically superior, like Linux was in most respects compared to 16-bit and pre-nt versions of windows, once an established player appears, the dominant platform already has the key applications and mindshare and because of that gets to keep it.
Thus in Linux-land people made wine to cover their windows compatibility needs. Will Microsoft admit defeat and add an android compatibility layer into windows phone?
Back then Apple was also ahead of the curve for a long time and carved out is own niche market, slowly to see a competitor take the mainstream market share.
No matter how good your solution is, no matter if it is technically superior, like Linux was in most respects compared to 16-bit and pre-nt versions of windows, once an established player appears, the dominant platform already has the key applications and mindshare and because of that gets to keep it.
Thus in Linux-land people made wine to cover their windows compatibility needs. Will Microsoft admit defeat and add an android compatibility layer into windows phone?
I doubt it, but I have no doubt they should.