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"Recently, I actually did switch to an Android phone," he said, speaking on Fox News on Sunday.
Microsoft's own Windows-powered phones have failed to make a significant impact on the smartphone market, which is dominated by devices running Google's Android operating system.
However, Mr Gates said he had installed lots of Microsoft apps on his phone.
When asked whether he also had an iPhone, perhaps as a secondary device, he replied: "No, no iPhone."
He did not reveal which particular smartphone he currently uses.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:27AM (7 children)
Jobs is why we use smart phones. They have been around for a long time. MS was one of the better ones. The carriers charged for data like it was gold. Jobs said 'unlimited or no phone'. That is why. MS should have owned that market. But the carriers did not want the wince phone.
(Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:34AM (3 children)
Jobs never said unlimited or no phone.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:47AM
He certainly never did here either, as far as I know it's still not possible to get an unlimited data plan here, iPhone or not.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:29PM (1 child)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/08/16/how-steve-jobs-got-att-to-share-revenue/#4c6e5b43391c [forbes.com]
"Jobs said, '$50 a month unlimited voice, data, and SMS plan -- that's our mission. We should ask for and go after something unreasonable that no one has been willing to accept.' He would come up with these outrageous demands and fight for them -- getting much more than he otherwise would have."
Without unlimited the phone would have been DOA. Jobs knew it. It had sunk every data heavy phone before it (and there were dozens of them). He had the second mover advantage. He was very good at it. He built Apple upon it. See where everyone else stubbed their toe then dont do that.
That article talks about 1 carrier. He was doing the exact same thing with the other 3 (I worked with the people who dealt with him at other carriers). Jobs knew how to play them against each other to get exactly what he wanted. Unlimited data, unlimited calling, unlimited SMS. He did not care about that model anymore he knew he could sell apps for 1-2 bucks each. People would gobble them up just for the unlimited minutes and SMS at first then start buying apps which were useless without unlimited data. You do not buy a phone because it has 10-40 MB of data (what most carriers at the time offered). You buy them to make calls and fiddle with the apps. He saw that *well* before the carriers did.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @11:48PM
archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170123115222/http://www.forbes.com:80/sites/petercohan/2013/08/16/how-steve-jobs-got-att-to-share-revenue/#4c6e5b43391c [archive.org]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by chromas on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:49AM
Microsoft needs a Jobs to come in and smack the devs up and tell them how stupid Windows Update is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:27AM
Is that why AT&T used to offer a bunch of different rebadged HTC windows mobile phones? Because they didn't want them?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @08:11AM
Most people didn't want those phones either. The windows mobile phones were really bad. Many wouldn't even do DHCP or wireless LAN properly.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14883063/windows-mobile-force-dhcp-renew [stackoverflow.com]
It was even crappier before that. Different versions/vendor variations would have different basic things not work properly.