Windows Phone

product on 10 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 66 times in 31 episodes since 2017

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Morfit: Shifting software capital allocation beats fixing industrial manufacturing costs
“It's easy to get a company to shift its allocations away from making Windows phones to focusing on Office three 65. Then the one we took on at Rolls Royce, which was how do we engineer your engines to have a lower cost of goods than what they currently have an…”
Mason Morfit Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 56:15 Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Sinofsky: Steve Jobs framed iPhone market share by manufacturer to undercut rivals
“Steve Jobs, like, put up a slide at the iPhone launch of mobile phone share, but he very deliberately chose to measure it by the manufacturer of phones so that it diminished the share of Windows Phone. But he also could have just done it by operating system, w…”
Steven Sinofsky Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 10:05 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Windows Phone's Metro UI Design Originated from Microsoft Zune
“We're defining a really breakthrough new user interface called Metro that actually came from the Zune, which is funny that that's its lineage.”
Ben Gilbert Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 3:12:32 Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
Amann: Modern mobile apps and iOS copy Windows Phone's UI design
“If you look at the mobile app landscape in the last six or seven years, we're all starting to copy windows operating system, their phone and the way they organize the horizontal scrolls. So a lot of things that they introduced to the app world, because they ca…”
Andrew Amann Nov 22, 2022 ▶ 26:42 Startup Acquisition Stories with Andrew Amann, CEO at 923 Venture Studio
a16z Prediction Didn’t hold up
Evans: There are even odds Windows Phone disappears within a year
“It's, that, that, I would be, I think there's even odds that that product won't exist in a year.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:11 a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
Medina: Microsoft missed the smartphone wave by treating phones as mini PCs
“Microsoft sort of tried to throw, you know, resources at this problem with a grander vision that there will be no sort of winning a foreign factor in terms of size, that the phone is just, you know, one smaller device than a tablet, which is one smaller device…”
Manny Medina Sep 3, 2018 ▶ 7:34 1136 Outreach.io CEO: "We'll hit $10m/quarter in 2018" with focus on ARPU expansion

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