Reply to post: I thought that Microsoft would have been the answer for this

I thought that Microsoft would have been the answer for this

When Apple was running the show and Google/Android was buying Motorola's handset division, I thought that Microsoft was going to be in a good place to position their mobile OS on a base of being less evil (and less arbitrary with creating and then killing products) than Google. People should have been nervous that their supplier (Google/Android) was also competing directly against them. Google would drive manufacturers right into Microsoft's arms. But vendors they really didn't have a choice but to stay with Android, and the defection didn't happen.

And now that Microsoft seems to be abandoning phones and making a general mess of them they will just be missing their opportunity here.