Competition is good, but honestly, I don't want competition from Microsoft. I WANT them to fail (and thankfully the market so far has obliged). Their stranglehold on the desktop OS market is a tough egg to crack. It's a position that isn't even held via merit anymore - it's just kinda the default choice because that's what almost everyone runs so support and software are all made for it.
Microsoft failing in the mobile market hurts their bottom line, but more importantly it harms their company image even further. The more incompetent they look, the more likely people are to try out something else on their DESKTOP too. Not to mention that one extreme benefit of the mobile OS wars and the increase in people browsing from phones is that web developers have HAD to start thinking mutli-platform. The days when you could just develop for IE6 because that's what everyone used are long gone, and the myriad of non-MS OS's in use on mobile phones played a sizable role in that. I don't want MS to have a foothold in that area.
Let some new players fight in the mobile OS market.
You are absolutely right. The failure of MS in the mobile will definitely have a serious serious blow on the company as a whole. People will start thinking into alternatives which will eventually hit their desktop monopoly. If their market share come down to 75%, then it is just a matter of a short period (short may be 2-3 years) to get them finished !!. I am waiting for that to happen.
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Competition is good, but honestly, I don't want competition from Microsoft. I WANT them to fail (and thankfully the market so far has obliged). Their stranglehold on the desktop OS market is a tough egg to crack. It's a position that isn't even held via merit anymore - it's just kinda the default choice because that's what almost everyone runs so support and software are all made for it.
Microsoft failing in the mobile market hurts their bottom line, but more importantly it harms their company image even further. The more incompetent they look, the more likely people are to try out something else on their DESKTOP too. Not to mention that one extreme benefit of the mobile OS wars and the increase in people browsing from phones is that web developers have HAD to start thinking mutli-platform. The days when you could just develop for IE6 because that's what everyone used are long gone, and the myriad of non-MS OS's in use on mobile phones played a sizable role in that. I don't want MS to have a foothold in that area.
Let some new players fight in the mobile OS market.
You are absolutely right. The failure of MS in the mobile will definitely have a serious serious blow on the company as a whole. People will start thinking into alternatives which will eventually hit their desktop monopoly. If their market share come down to 75%, then it is just a matter of a short period (short may be 2-3 years) to get them finished !!. I am waiting for that to happen.