> The problem for Microsoft isn't that they didn't see mobile coming and Apple did
They did have a mobile operating system, a mobile .NET framework for application builders, and a bunch of early PDAs shipped with Windows Mobile.
Apple just managed to redefine the mobile market completely, and make Nokia, Sony/Ericsson, Research in Motion, Kyocera and others irrelevant. Those others were supposed to be producing hardware devices that would license Microsoft's mobile products.
So they had a vision, just turned out to be wrong.
They did have a mobile operating system, a mobile .NET framework for application builders, and a bunch of early PDAs shipped with Windows Mobile.
Apple just managed to redefine the mobile market completely, and make Nokia, Sony/Ericsson, Research in Motion, Kyocera and others irrelevant. Those others were supposed to be producing hardware devices that would license Microsoft's mobile products.
So they had a vision, just turned out to be wrong.