Slash Gear on why Windows Phone failed

For Slash Gear, Dave McQuilling looked at why Windows Phone failed and what was to blame (like Bill Gates):

When it comes to tech success stories, they don’t get much bigger than Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder’s impact in the tech world was enough to make him the world’s richest man on a number of occasions, but he doesn’t always get things right. While being interviewed at Village Global, the entrepreneur elaborated on just how big a failure Windows Phone was. Gates said:

“In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win. It really is winner take all. If you’re there with half as many apps or 90 percent as many apps, you’re on your way to complete doom. There’s room for exactly one non-Apple operating system and what’s that worth? $400 billion that would be transferred from company G to company M.”

At least Xbox is still around for people. Just about.