Bill Gates believes it’s been his fault to let Google start Android

In a talk with Village Global Bill Gates, he confessed that Microsoft has not beaten Google by building a “normal non-Apple phone platform.

In His Interview, he 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 the 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.”

Google bought Android for $50 million back in 2005, and former CEO Schmidt confessed that Google’s original focus had slashed the early attempts of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.
“We were extremely concerned that the mobile strategy of Microsoft would succeed,” Schmidt said during a legal struggle with Oracle over Java in 2012.
Android eventually murdered Windows Mobile and Windows Phone and became a mobile world
Windows equivalent.

Back that day, Microsoft had Windows Mobile, mostly a thumbnailed Windows version on the PC.
When the iPhone arrived in 2007, shortly after Google’s Android,
it was obvious that people would rather use the whole-screen operating system.

With the release of Windows Phone 7, but then it wasn’t in comparison with Android and iOS,
Microsoft tried to get back on track with 2010 and combined with manufacturers ‘
limited support and the need for a further reset with Windows Phone 8 ultimately shielded the platform fate.

Yet Microsoft isn’t all bad. Microsoft has become the most valuable company in the world
during the years under Satya Nadella, which defeat Apple and Google.