Microsoft should`ve challenged the iPhone in mobile space, says Bill Gates
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Gates says the non-Apple portion of the mobile space `was a natural thing for Microsoft to win.` What you need to know Bill Gates says that his biggest mistake at Microsoft was losing the mobile space to Android as the primary challenger to Apple. Gates saw the non-Apple standard for the mobile market as a `natural thing for Microsoft to win.` While Gates sees Microsoft as a leading company right now, he believes it could be the leading company had it got mobile right. In a candid new interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that ceding the mobile market to Android to challenge Apple was his `greatest mistake ever.` Speaking at an event with venture capital firm Village Global (via The Verge), Gates touched on the subject as part of a larger discussion on some of the most important choices he made at Microsoft. From Gates: You know, in the software world, in particular for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So, you know, the greatest mistake ever is the what...