Buried in an NYT piece about the midway point in Bill Gate’s two-year departure plan from Microsoft’s daily operations, some comments about Google’s chances in the mobile phone market. According to John Markoff, Gates rejected the idea of Google as a successful competitor in smartphone software; Microsoft has about 10 percent of that market. Gates: “How many products, of all the Google products that have been introduced, how many of them are profit-making products? … They
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