{"id":937001,"date":"2025-06-06T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937001"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:18:10","slug":"how-steve-ballmer-may-have-just-agreed-with-android-co-founder-for-bill-gates-being-responsible-for-microsoft-losing-400-billion-plus-in-smartphone-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/06\/how-steve-ballmer-may-have-just-agreed-with-android-co-founder-for-bill-gates-being-responsible-for-microsoft-losing-400-billion-plus-in-smartphone-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How Steve Ballmer may have just agreed with Android co-founder for Bill Gates being responsible for Microsoft losing $400 billion-plus in smartphone war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft recently admitted how overconfidence in Windows prevented the software giant from capitalizing on the smartphone market. Speaking on the Acquired podcast, Ballmer said, \u201cWe were too confident,\u201d as he reflected on Microsoft\u2019s past strategy of pushing Windows into markets where it didn\u2019t fit, instead of building solutions tailored to specific platforms. His remarks echoes with Android co-founder Rich Miner who \u2013 earlier this year \u2013 attributed Microsoft\u2019s loss of smartphone wars to Android to Bill Gates\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft recently admitted how overconfidence in Windows prevented the software giant from capitalizing on the smartphone market. Speaking on the Acquired podcast, Ballmer said, \u201cWe were too confident,\u201d as he reflected on Microsoft\u2019s past strategy of pushing Windows into markets where it didn\u2019t fit, instead of building solutions tailored to specific platforms. His remarks echoes with Android co-founder Rich Miner who \u2013 earlier this year \u2013 attributed Microsoft\u2019s loss of smartphone wars to Android to Bill Gates\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937001","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}