Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake - eviltoast
Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

  • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    This was the downfall of BlackBerry as well.

    QNX-based BB10 OS was phenomenal, and their hardware was top notch.

    It was the lacking app ecosystem that killed it.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      You need to read up on the fall of Blackberry. It was extremely badly mismanaged. It wasn’t the lack of apps that killed them.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was a BB developer right around the time of their demise. It never mattered how good or bad their OS was, because the development environment for BB was complete shit - which was a big part of why nobody wrote apps for it.