Microsoft, under the leadership of its various CEOs, made significant mistakes in the mobile phone industry. The company\u2019s co-founder Bill Gates once admitted that it was a big mistake to let Google\u2019s Android beat them in the mobile market. The former CEO Steve Ballmer focused too much on their own mobile system and didn\u2019t take Apple\u2019s iPhone seriously enough. Now, the company\u2019s CEO, Satya Nadella, has gone on record to admit that writing off the company\u2019s mobile phone business was a mistake.<\/p>\n
In an interview given to Business Insider, the CEO talked about many things including the Activision Blizzard deal, his personal life, AI, open source and more. When asked about any kind of real strategic mistake or decision that he regrets, Nadella replied that it was the company\u2019s exit of mobile phones soon after he became the CEO that he regrets. He wished that company could have found a better way to make it work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision I think a lot of people talk about \u2013 and one of the most difficult decisions I made when I became CEO \u2014was our exit of what I\u2019ll call the mobile phone as defined then. In retrospect, I think there could have been ways we could have made it work by perhaps reinventing the category of computing between PCs, tablets, and phones,\u201d he replied.
\nMicrosoft also gave up on their own Windows Phone and instead made phones that run on Google\u2019s Android system. However, these phones haven\u2019t been very successful, and it\u2019s unclear what will happen to them in the future with no successor or software updates. The company over the past few years has changed it strategy to fit with the popular mobile system. It has been making apps for Android and iPhones, and they\u2019re working closely with Samsung to have their Office apps on Samsung\u2019s Android phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Microsoft, under the leadership of its various CEOs, made significant mistakes in the mobile phone industry. The company\u2019s co-founder Bill Gates once admitted that it was a big mistake to let Google\u2019s Android beat them in the mobile market. The former CEO Steve Ballmer focused too much on their own mobile system and didn\u2019t take Apple\u2019s iPhone seriously enough. Now, the company\u2019s CEO, Satya Nadella, has gone on record to admit that writing off the company\u2019s mobile phone business was a mistake. In an interview given to Business Insider, the CEO talked about many things including the Activision Blizzard deal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}