Bill Gates believes Microsoft lost out on $400B by losing the smartphone market

24 June 2019
Microsoft's co-founder regrets not beating Google for the phone market.

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At these days, Android is for smartphones what Windows is for PC's...So you Mr. Bill Gates made billions of dollars with the DOS/Windows dominance in personal computing market so you can't complaint at all my friend!!!!

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    • Adul Al Salami Kebab
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    • 24 Jun 2019

    Aadrian, 24 Jun 2019If there's really room for 1 non Apple OS, then I'm afraid ... moreThey will use Sailfish or Hongmeng the first one probably for export models and the latter for local market in China, I find it more likely that Huawei will use Sailfish(Aurora OS) and promote privacy and security for its user base! :D

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      • Adul Al Salami Kebab
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      • 24 Jun 2019

      Losing the beloved phone OS was sad, tough the loss made Microsoft a less evil company! V-V

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        • Jerry Christ
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        • 24 Jun 2019

        Bill Gates should reinvest his money into a new brand///
        it will be call BILL'S GATES - and he will design and build gates for donald trumps walls/?

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          • AnonD-558092
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          • 24 Jun 2019

          Aadrian, 24 Jun 2019If there's really room for 1 non Apple OS, then I'm afraid ... moreHuawei needs a selling point too. What makes their solution superior to Android? If the answer is "Well, I dunno", that's not going to work.

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            • dNg
            • 24 Jun 2019

            Phones are getting more powerful and bigger anyway. Windows 10 phones start to make sense. Just use a Keyboard and mouse.

              If there's really room for 1 non Apple OS, then I'm afraid for whatever Huawei is coming with. No matter the user base world wide.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 24 Jun 2019

                They just to make the same effort they made with the surface line... Windows phone was good but lacked in app exo system and updates...

                  It's Microsoft's own fault that they killed Windows Phone OS. Instead of working on getting over it's shortcomings & improving it to make more it competitive with Android/iOS, they just 86ed it. Bad move. There was definitely space for a newcomer as a lot of Android users are not happy with the recent changes in Android.

                  Now that Huawei is about to launch their new OS, we'll see how it fares & how they manage it.

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                    • AnonD-558092
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                    • 24 Jun 2019

                    MS has bet on Cloud after the WinPhone failure. It did wonders.

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