>>>OK, so again, Baller was wrong.
>>>
>>>You're implying that there was a correct strategy and he missed it.
>>>
>>>What was it?
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>>Mobile OS mimicking the phone he thought of as irrelevant, and Open Source. Google just mixed those 2 things together...
>
>Google gets almost 70% of its revenue from advertising.
>Should MS have gone into the advertising business?

They should have gone after the non-iOS mobile market using the strategy of Google to stay in pole position of deployed OS and to milk that via xxStore and utilizing inside info on tech development further down the pipe for their own apps