In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets.
That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform.
That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win, Gates told Eventbrite co-founder and CEO Julia Hartz.
Theres room for exactly one non-Apple operating system and whats that worth?
We were in the field of doing operating systems for personal computers.
We knew that mobile phones would be very popular, Gates said.
We missed being the dominant mobile operating system by a very tiny amount.
We were distracted during our antitrust trial.
We didnt assign the best people to do the work.
We were clearly the company that should have achieved that, and we didnt.
Android is a huge asset for Google.
source: www.techworm.net
