They can't compete with open source on price, and Apple on marketing. So no, they won't.
Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
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Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#22It's difficult to take this article seriously. No claims are corroborated. Interesting to observe that HN took a sensational headline and upvoted. Wish there was a downvote, as it's not worth flagging, but a downvote definitely.
Yea really, I can't even believe this was posted.
And upvoted. Spam is regularly posted on HN and we flag it. But this one was upvoted, that's troubling.
Re: Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets
#23This guy makes a lot of sense! When Apple brought out the iPod, Microsoft quickly copied all of the features and released the Zune, which quickly stole the market. Apple then added in the new feature of having your iPod be a phone and released the iPhone. Microsoft quickly copied that feature and released Windows Phone by combining their Windows Mobile offering with Zune to copy all those features and stole the marke…
I am glad you put the end tag, else I had almost misunderstood you.