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mrtksn on May 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google suspends some business with Huawei

Microsoft tried hard to have a mobile operating system, there were others too but the problem is that nobody cares for the operating system if there is no viable ecosystem around it.

GordonS on May 19, 2019 [–]

And Microsoft's mobile OS was actually good - many lamented its demise.

Didn't Samsung also create a new mobile OS in recent times? I wonder how that's doing now?

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