wraggster
April 15th, 2012, 17:34
Microsoft apparently could have been a contender in the smartphone market, instead of what WP7 is today. Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold says he tried to convince Microsoft to make an iPhone-like device (http://www.geekwire.com/2012/how-nathan-myhrvold-almost-invented-the-iphone/) more than two decades ago. 'The cost will not be very high,' Myhrvold wrote in 1991. 'It is pretty easy to imagine a $400 to $1,000 retail price.' So is Myhrvold bitter that cost-conscious and risk averse Microsoft opted not to pursue his vision (http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/myhrvoldiphone.jpg?7794fe)? Nope. 'Hey, it was better than predicting the wrong thing,' Myhrvold explains.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/15/1246251/microsoft-passed-on-iphone-like-device-in-1991
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/15/1246251/microsoft-passed-on-iphone-like-device-in-1991