Huawei's 10-inch tri-folding phone confirms Satya Nadella was wrong for killing Windows Phone AND Surface Duo

[Windows Central]

Huawei has just unveiled its long-teased "tri-fold" smartphone, featuring two foldable apexes across a 10-inch display. I think this would be perfect for Windows. It's too bad Microsoft killed its mobile phone efforts—twice.

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[Jcmg62]

Microsoft walking away from mobile will never make sense.

 

[Cmndr_Bytes]

"It always seems to be the case, but Microsoft was well ahead of the game with Windows Phone." <-- This.

How many truly amazing products has MS been on the forefront of only to squander it because it did not make a buzillion dollars in the first month?
Continuum could be huge today. Dock your phone at your desk and have a working desktop. And now with their cloud PC's..... Face palm.

 

[Mr Gecko X]

Microsoft lacks commitment to an idea that will become great. Microsoft is great at giving ideas to other companies to make money. How great would it have been to start a game on a windows phone and continue it on your Xbox. Then get a call to modify a Word or Excel Document and then use your phone to present that idea to a customer in their conference room. One seamless Microsoft Universe. It makes me sad and angry at Microsoft's shortsightedness. Windows Phone was the best phone, hands down!

 

[CosmicTourist]

I can never understand how Microsoft could cede dominance in such an important arena as mobile communications to other competitors. By doing so, they consigned themselves to always be following the lead of others and having to adapt their products to work on other companies devices. We should all concede that Microsoft may never have been the biggest competitor in the mobile space, but they certainly could have been a major player that commanded respect and maybe even forced others to follow their lead instead of the other way around.

 

[taynjack]

"Android does well in the mobile space, but it's a different ball game when it comes to tablet apps. This drawback is improving, but it's still not where I (and Google) would like it to be."

Given that Microsoft seemed to struggle at scaling down their desktops to mobile, and Google appears to still struggle to get mobile scaled up from phones to desktops that this elusive solution is the golden code for either company. It's just too bad that even if Microsoft somehow solved it, they'd have nowhere to deploy it given Satya's Myopia. Microsoft would need a wholesale change at the top, along with a 100 billion dollar investment account to even consider getting back into mobile.