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Bill Gates has said that he thinks everyone would be using Windows Mobile right now and not Android if it weren't for his distractions and the antitrust investigation that his company got caught into.
"There's no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system and so instead of using Android today you would be using Windows Mobile," Gates claimed during his speech at The New York Times' DealBook Conference.
[...] Microsoft cofounder also revealed that the company was almost launching Windows Mobile on a Motorola handset but missed out on it by a few months, giving Android an unbeatable advantage. While there were a lot of factors, Gates says it's this 3-months delay that led to Android's supremacy and the downfall of any mobile efforts by Microsoft.
"We were just three months too late on a release Motorola would have used on a phone, so yes it's a winner takes all game."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @05:02PM
There is this thing in econ where the total tax revenue collected tends to stay the same regardless of how you scale the tax system. The market adjusts on its own to the same total recovered taxes, at the expense of GDP if it isn't handled correctly.
There are factors related to market transparency that will change things way more than shifting tax burden. Most of that is on SCOTUS. You can vote for whatever brand of the uniparty you want, it doesn't change the fact that SCOTUS and most of the federal court system have utterly abandoned article 1 and the bill of rights. Congress can pass whatever laws they want because SCOTUS can be relied on to ensure that the constitutionality of criminal systems of governance (the modern American fascism) will never be publicly debated.
Though I find it weird to watch Bill in chill mode. I tried to look up some stuff from the 90's, and I couldn't find any. I remember this guy used to say batshit things all the time. Apparently with enough money you can erase history. Funny that.