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A false dichotomy, it's in both. Home entertainment in the form of music, tv, and video games is a massive industry. Just because mobile is new and hot doesn't mean it defines the extent of the known business universe. Ignoring a multi-billion dollar market for the sake of intellectual simplicity is the epitome of zealotry.

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Well there's money everywhere - groceries is a 100 billion dollar industry too, I don't think it's the "epitome of zealotry" for MS to ignore groceries.

Mobile wasn't exactly a hot industry 10 years ago. It's the job of a hundred billion dollar company like MS to make big investments in billion dollar markets, sure, but I don't think there's any denying Xbox was a miscalculation on MS's part.

See the market caps of Apple and MS now for lessons learned.

10 years ago mobile was an incredibly hot industry. In December 2000 the market cap of Nokia was around 200 billion, roughly comparable to the likes of Intel or Microsoft. Just a few months before telecoms had bled themselves dry in the German 3G frequency auction, seriously believing that the rights were worth tens of billions.

Should have quantified my statement, mobile software wasn't hot 10 years ago.

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