> you need persistence to win.
You also need a plan. How would Windows Phone displace either Apple or Android?
You also need a plan. How would Windows Phone displace either Apple or Android?
If Windows phones would have had an emulated x86 mode, many people would have bought it instantly due to the momentum that now steadily decreases.
There can be solid business revenue if you are "just" #3 and the experience with development is very valuable. Although it is true that Microsoft and hardware has always been turbulent, with partners or without. Sometimes they simply created the best products in their class with a lot of margin, sometimes they basically sold scrap.
Even now, Microsoft has a great advantage over Google and Apple in getting meetings with the procurement people in those organisations.
Had they made it open source, it would have been a different story with Android and Windows Phone fighting to win the OEMs.
But that ship has sailed. Unless there's a paradigm shift in smartphones (doubtful), we're stuck with Android and iOS for the foreseeable future.
That would have necessitated open sourcing Windows