9 Jul
2015
9 Jul
'15
4:18 a.m.
In the wake of the latest round of Microsoft’s layoffs, it seems apropos to remember the time they held a mock funeral for their competition at the time of the Windows Phone 7 launch: <http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/10/microsoft_employees_hold_funeral_parade_for_iphone_blackberry>. “Research firm Gartner predicted ... Nokia Symbian and Google Android [would be] first and second with 30.2 percent and 29.6 percent [market share] respectively [in 2014].” Did anybody notice any Symbian phones still on sale? Android had more like 80%...