Being the best doesn’t always equate to being the most popular. No doubt that Android and iOS are firmly entrenched, especially Android. It isn’t obvious to many yet, but Apple is in a very precarious position with the absence of innovation to sustain the magic. Microsoft and OEM partners are focusing on mobile solutions for the enterprise and professional class users, a la the Surface product line. As of now I don’t see Microsoft making phones for the consumer market, but OEMs partners, such as Acer, probably will.
In 1980 I worked as an entry-level programmer at a Sperry-Univac (Unisys) manufacturing plant.
No, you don't, not as of now. But, it's not from a lack of trying.
Being the best doesn’t always equate to being the most popular.
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In private enterprise, that’s exactly what it means. Market share is the lifeblood of a product, until that product is surpassed by another product that pioneers an entirely new paradigm.
You no doubt remember the VCR format war. Who won? When that format winner finally succumbed to oblivion, was it the other format that took its place? No, it was a radically different technology that did.
Until interfaces for mobile products change in a similar radical fashion, iOS and Android are it. Android in particular, since it is based on open source code.
Surface, until it does something entirely novel, has no future.
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As of now I don’t see Microsoft making phones for the consumer market, but OEMs partners, such as Acer, probably will.
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No doubt Microsoft will keep a very tiny share of the market for awhile, like Sculley’s Apple desktops and IBM’s OS/2 Warp. But Microsoft missed the boat, and unlike the browser wars of the mid-90s, there’s no amount of money that can make that boat turn back around.
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In 1980 I worked as an entry-level programmer at a Sperry-Univac (Unisys) manufacturing plant.
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Business programmer or raw-meater?