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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake (www.theverge.com)
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake::Satya Nadella wrote off Microsoft’s Nokia phone business acquisition and now says the company’s exit from mobile was a mistake.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Canonical also tried this a few years ago with their Ubuntu Touch crowdfunding and failed. Even released some convergent devices but that didn't sell much. My impression is that although the concept is cool it is simply not appealing for the general audience

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (11 children)

People want software and a functioning phone. Linux, in all its glory, is not for consumers.

The only hope we had was Microsoft, but that’s a joke in itself.

So unless someone wants to try to take on Google, and toss billions at it, it’s just one shitty android form after the other.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Linux on Desktop is fine, because it's had a long time to mature and improve.

The problem is that Linux mobile software is very immature, so it isn't ready for a general audience yet.

[–] RatherBeMTB 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Android is Linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And why do we need waydroid in order to install android apk on postmarkedOS?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Android does use the Linux kernel, they're right, but the userspace is completely different and what I was referring to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I was referring to standard GNU/Linux or Busybox/Linux, not the heavily modified Android.

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