Comments on: Clash of mobile platform strategies (1): Microsoft’s schizophrenia

By: Microsoft passes the “choice” bludgeon against Apple to Google « counternotions

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:59:12 +0000

[...] has itself ultimately recognized the failure of this strategy, as we have repeatedly pointed out over the last two years. In the competitive consumer markets, where consumers bought their own [...]

By: Rob Girling

Rob Girling — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:48:53 +0000

Look forward to the next installment. I think Mobile OEM’s, and mobile carriers will find the challenge of differentiating themselves on top of Android to be incredibly hard. Great Hardware and User experience design will be key for them and very few (HTC?) have demonstrated excellence in either department, fewer have ever pulled both off at the same time.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:05:17 +0000

Google is not worried about generating any direct revenue from Android. They give it away, because the whole point is to get on as many phones as possible as quickly as possible (which shouldn’t be difficult, seeing as how Windows Mobile is a piece of crap). The revenue will come from the advertising they can “push” to mobile phones using their OS. Same thing with Google Chrome – once they have enough of their “browsers” in place to facilitate widespread use of their “cloud” apps, everyone will default to their search engine and they can feed you as much advertising as they want. You have to hand it to Google, they stick to their business model, unlike Microsoft, which has allowed itself to become distracted from what made it the behemoth that it is. They’ve become so obsessed with beating Google in search (and also proving that they can win with the same model in mobile as in desktop) that they’ve let OS slip, and so, consequently, we end up with Vista.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:04:41 +0000

tom B: "mismatched 'brains' and 'bodies'" What's interesting is that many people think this is a good thing. They think they should be separate. And then they complain about why their PC isn't working.

By: tom B

tom B — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:59:12 +0000

“They believe in putting the hardware and software together, they don’t believe in letting other people make it.”

Bill Gates’ approach (now Ballmer) created Frankenstein monsters– mismatched “brains” and “bodies”.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:40:59 +0000

Jon Kepler: “Google isn’t creating any revenue from Android?”

Their app store is for free downloads and Android is given away free. So Google is not realizing any direct revenue. One assumes their interest goes beyond direct revenue generation, and into advertising and service capture. I’ll try to get into this in the next article.

By: Jon Kepler

Jon Kepler — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:30:07 +0000

Did I read that correctly? Google isn’t creating any revenue from Android? Why not?

By: Kontra

Kontra — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:43 +0000

Rask: “the Zune software would be getting integrated in Windows Mobile device”

Thanks. I had planned to include that as part of the discussion in the next two articles.

By: Rask

Rask — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:45:15 +0000

You did miss one quick aspect writing this article..

Ballmer did an interview with CIO last week where is mentionned that the Zune software would be getting integrated in Windows Mobile device. (assumptions are that it will be part of Windows 7 and MS would also be making it available for 6.1.)

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081003-ballmer-zune-software-coming-to-windows-mobile.html

Figured it might be usefull information for completeness of the article.