| Ryuu96 said:
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Despite all my respect to Jez, but his takes on mobile side of things are super weird and go way too far in Microsoft shill territory. There is no such thing as Apple/Google duopoly, because there is no conspiracy or cartel between them. And it’s even more funny that he always views it from evil Apple/Google using this duopoly to hurt poor Microsoft. It was Microsoft’s decision to not invest in mobile OS when they had a chance and make it successful. It was their decision to pull the plug on it and if you remember they boasted about how going all the way to embrace iOS/Android and invest in making their apps more successful on these platforms is the super smart strategy compared to trying to invest more in Windows Phone. To me it was obvious that it will limit their mobile ambitions at some point, right when they announced this shift in strategy. Because depending on a third party is always worse than having your own. So, in the end, the blame is addressed in the wrong direction. Microsoft had their chance but it was them who chose the wrong strategy. Not Google or Apple
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