To paraphrase Machiavelli's observation: when the King is weak or clueless, the Princes will fight among themselves.

Well, I guess clueless is just a particular cause of weakness, so Machiavelli's observation stands on its own.

>>Which would be fine if he thought deeply enough to connect the dots of the entire organization, had a vision of the entire system as it is now and what it should be, and then sold and enforced that vision in the organization. Alas.
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>Apple had its falilures as well (or was is just the link with apples falling that killed Newton ?)
>but the spectacular list of misses in the win mobile area still is puzzling.
>Others had no trouble developing Office-lookalikes downto Symbian -
>and they were not able to at least get something better in their own mobile system ?