Life’s simple pleasures encourage us to keep going. And while there are those great joys in life-the once-in-a-lifetime kind which will remain forever bound in our hearts-there also are small pleasures that happen every so often.
I practically worked on the generation of Android to keep Microsoft from positioning the phones in the same manner that they did with the PC, which stifled innovation. Therefore, it is always funny for me to hear Gates whining about losing mobile to Android.
He is commenting again on something that Bill Gates has let slip – that his biggest mistake cost Microsoft $400 billion. He’s talking about Android, of course, and it is not a new thing. He made the same comment back in 2019.
Gates revealed that he regrets letting Google develop Android, which he dubbed the “standard non-Apple phone form platform” worth $400 billion. After Microsoft made an early start with Windows Mobile, mismanagement and underestimation of the iPhone enabled Google to dominate the mobile market. Gates regretted that Microsoft could have been the leading tech company if it had succeeded in the non-Apple mobile operating system market. If this, if that.
Even if I’m not happy with Android as it exists now, I’m sure as hell confident it’s a million times better than what non-Apple phones could have been under Bill Gates had his Windows Mobile succeeded. But that’s just me.