Android co-founder says “it’s always funny” to hear Bill Gates “whine about losing mobile to Android”
Android co-founder says “it’s always funny” to hear Bill Gates “whine about losing mobile to Android”
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It's life's little pleasures that often keep us going. Of course, there are also the great joys in life: the unforgettable milestones of joy that linger for decades in our hearts and minds.
Then, there's this, something in between, I think:
The above is X's share of Rich Miner, co-founder of Android.
It literally helped create Android to prevent Microsoft from controlling the phone the same way it controls the PC — stifling innovation. So it's always funny to me to hear Gates complain about losing mobile to Android.
– Rich Miner at X, January 2025
He comments on what Bill Gates said and revealed again - that his biggest mistake cost Microsoft $400 billion. He's talking about Android, of course, and that's nothing new at all. Back in 2019, he did Exactly the same confession. Gates revealed that his biggest regret is letting Google develop Android, which he calls "the standard non-Apple phone model platform" and is valued at $400 billion. Despite Microsoft's early lead with the Windows Mobile operating system, mismanagement and underestimation of the iPhone's capabilities allowed Google to dominate the mobile phone market. Gates lamented that Microsoft could have become the number one technology company if it had captured the non-Apple mobile operating system market. If this, if that.Even if I'm not 100% happy with Android right now, I'm 100% sure it's a million times better than what non-Apple phones would have been under Bill Gates, if his Windows Mobile was successful. But that's just me.
It’s life’s little pleasures that often keep us going. Of course, there are also the great joys in life: the unforgettable milestones of joy that linger for decades in our hearts and minds.
Then, there’s this, something in between, I think:
The above is X’s share of Rich Miner, co-founder of Android.
It literally helped create Android to prevent Microsoft from controlling the phone the same way it controls the PC — stifling innovation. So it’s always funny to me to hear Gates complain about losing mobile to Android.
– Rich Miner at X, January 2025
He comments on what Bill Gates said and revealed again – that his biggest mistake cost Microsoft $400 billion. He’s talking about Android, of course, and that’s nothing new at all. Back in 2019, he did Exactly the same confession. Gates revealed that his biggest regret is letting Google develop Android, which he calls “the standard non-Apple phone model platform” and is valued at $400 billion. Despite Microsoft’s early lead with the Windows Mobile operating system, mismanagement and underestimation of the iPhone’s capabilities allowed Google to dominate the mobile phone market. Gates lamented that Microsoft could have become the number one technology company if it had captured the non-Apple mobile operating system market. If this, if that.Even if I’m not 100% happy with Android right now, I’m 100% sure it’s a million times better than what non-Apple phones would have been under Bill Gates, if his Windows Mobile was successful. But that’s just me.
