How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile (or own IBM Power systems can play to its strengths)

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IBM and Power Systems users can do well by playing to strengths of its
hardware and software.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/19/microsoft.windows.mobile/index.html

How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile

. . .Windows Mobile has lost nearly a third of its smartphone market
share  
since 2008, research firm Gartner reports. . .  . . . Windows Mobile
ships with several different  
manufacturers' hardware, including HTC, LG and Samsung. The problem?  
 From a developer perspective, that requires coding an app for several  
phones with different UI styles, buttons and screen sizes. (The same  
problem, incidentally, has started to plague Android developers.) . . .

. . . The iPhone operates on a  
closed system, which can only run on Apple hardware, meaning third- 
party developers can produce apps and games that work exclusively with  
the iPhone.