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

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake::Satya Nadella wrote off Microsoft’s Nokia phone business acquisition and now says the company’s exit from mobile was a mistake.

  • brenno@lemmy.brennoflavio.com.brEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Canonical also tried this a few years ago with their Ubuntu Touch crowdfunding and failed. Even released some convergent devices but that didn’t sell much. My impression is that although the concept is cool it is simply not appealing for the general audience

    • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
      813·
      1 year ago

      People want software and a functioning phone. Linux, in all its glory, is not for consumers.

      The only hope we had was Microsoft, but that’s a joke in itself.

      So unless someone wants to try to take on Google, and toss billions at it, it’s just one shitty android form after the other.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

        Linux, in all its glory, is not for consumers.

        Guess we should tell everyone using Android phones and Chromebooks that their devices aren’t actually ready for consumers. Everyone with Steam Decks should get rid of them too.

        Should probably also extend that to Unix. Maybe some day MacOS, iOS, PlayStation OS, Nintendo’s OS, etc will be ready for consumers

        The issue isn’t Linux. The issue is that spearheading a new system in a highly competitive market is hard. Microsoft didn’t use Linux and they still failed, despite buying a massive well-loved brand and investing several billion

        Shit, HTC and LG couldn’t stay alive, Sony are a shadow of their former selves in the phone market. And they didn’t even have to worry about pushing a whole new software experience.

      • finn_der_mensch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Why are people downvoting ? Yes I love Linux too and all, but be honest. It is not relevant in the mass desktop market. That didn’t make it more easy for Ubuntu touch.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          1 year ago

          People are downvoting because it was an ill-informed comment.

          The issue isn’t Linux. A large majority of phones use Linux, as do many other consumer devices. Saying “Linux isn’t for consumers” is extremely daft.

          Ubuntu’s phone efforts didn’t fail because it ran Linux, it failed because almost all phone brands do unless they have Chinese backing.

          Microsoft pumped billions into smartphones and failed. Was it because of Linux? No. Windows phone didn’t run Linux. So I guess by the above logic, Windows isn’t suitable for consumers?

          Shit, HTC and LG are big names that died in the phone space despite not having the hard job of creating their own ecosystem. Samsung has walked back on Tizen and a bunch of other in-house stuff and started shifting back to Google services. Sony is only surviving by abandoning the mass market.

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Linux on Desktop is fine, because it’s had a long time to mature and improve.

        The problem is that Linux mobile software is very immature, so it isn’t ready for a general audience yet.