Dubai – Masaader News
Bill Gates admitted, at a forum in Washington, that his biggest mistake ever was to allow Google to develop Android before his company could come up with another mobile operating system (OS), according to Entrepreneur.
Today, Android is Apple’s biggest competitor in the smartphone industry. Talking about it further he said, “That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win,” he said. But being a true businessman, he blames himself for missing on the opportunity and his poor mismanagement. He feels he didn’t guide his team to jump and make the best of the opportunity.
He feels that Microsoft today would be more powerful if they haven’t lost the battle over against Google and its Android platform over the mobile OS. “We were in the field of doing operating systems for personal computers. We knew that mobile phones would be very popular,” he said.
When Google acquired Android in 2005, they came up with their first smartphone in September 2008. A year before Apple launched its first iPhone on June 29, 2007. There is always room for another major player. So Android became the competitor to Apple’s operating system and the net worth of that market is $400 billion.