There are mistakes that you can ignore, but there are also mistakes that will haunt you for the rest of your life. He spoke about the second category error in one of the recent discussions on the Village Global forum, where he talked to the company's CEO. EventBriton Julia Hartz. And frankly, from the amount he bet on Microsoft because of the mistake you made Gates He attributes, he came, his hair stands up in horror.
When the conversation came up about mistakes in business, Gates surprised the staff by saying that his biggest mistake cost him Microsoft around 400 billion dollars. Specifically, Bill blames that Microsoft failed to fill the space for the second mobile operating system that emerged after the introduction iOS (or rather, then iPhone OS) and which Google very quickly usurped for itself.
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"You know, in the world of software, especially platforms, it's winner-take-all.", he began Gates explaining his idea by saying that he considers it an extreme mistake that Microsoft is not where Google is now in the mobile phone field. At the time, it was Microsoft in a position where it would be de facto natural for him to be able to do Appto push its system forward, as it was technologically ahead of Google. But it failed to reveal its mobile system in time, and while Apple showed iPhone OS in 2007 and Google then Android in 2008, the first Windows Phone with mobile version Windows he arrived only in October 2010. Pro Microsoft so it was logically extremely complicated at a time when Apple built a user base iPhone OS for three years and Google for two, Microsoft he was just starting his efforts.
"Back then there was room for exactly one noApphunting operating system and we didn't exploit it. What is the cost of this flaw? Around $400 billion that Google now has from Android and could have Microsoft Thanks Windows PhoneI think this is a really big mess and it may be one of the biggest technological mistakes of all time."," he concluded Gates his idea. However, given that he is one of the richest people in the world with a fortune of around $110 billion, this mistake may not bother him that much. After all, neither he nor many of his descendants will have to work.
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Today, people have a choice between Android or iOS. Sure, there are probably some others, but who cares. My phone basically has my entire life, from passwords, photos, notes, numbers of my lovers, my family's and my other secret family's information, and so on. I enjoy using all sorts of apps, but I'm aware that every app is a potential risk and a hole in my phone. ProI voted for that. iOSI don't have apple I love it so much, I understand the development costs, but its marketing annoys me. But what can I do, I can't go to Android, I don't like the openness and the greater risks associated with it. It would be a shame if it Microsoft didn't come, there could have been another player and I might have been there Windows...a big shame, the tiles were a great idea, the other levels not so much, but if they had worked on it and unified it with the desktop... oh my, I'm probably going to have wet dreams tonight
The tiles were really cool. Too bad :(
Android could have been released at the same time as iOS, or maybe even earlier, but Apple was simply more capable. Both systems were basically useless at first and there were no applications. The first smart phone was basically Nokia with its Symbian. Well, who knows how it would have turned out if MS had reacted in time, maybe we would have had 3 systems, maybe two would have lasted, who knows. Over time, alternative systems appear, but somehow they never became widespread.
btw: what hasn't changed is the eternal hate among users iPhone (or rather, it should be iOS) vs Android, which is sad, especially when you have experience of both worlds and know exactly what it's really like
Whereas the Bill Gates He promised that his children would receive around 10 million USD, but they wouldn't be that rich. And certainly not many other descendants. Bill He wants his children to build their own careers. Most of his fortune will go to philanthropy.