Bill Gates: "My biggest mistake is that I let Android win," he said in an interview.

In a recent interview given by Bill Gates referred to the mistakes made in her attempt Microsoft to be established in mobile market, and stated that his biggest mistake was that he left it Android to become what they could be Windows Mobile.

Ο Gates reported that in the software world the winner gets all the purchases. He pointed out that his biggest mistake was that he failed to make Microsoft what Android is today.

Explain that Android is the standard phone platform for non-Apple devices and Microsoft could have done just that. In essence Gates said that in the mobile market Android is for Apple that Windows in the computer market.

As the co-founder of Microsoft rightly added, when in a market you own 50% of the applications or have 90% more applications than your opponent, then you have already set your course.

Google bought Android in 2005. The company's former CEO, Eric Schmidt, has previously admitted that the company initially feared that Microsoft would be able to conquer the mobile market as well. However, they finally succeeded and turned Android into Windows smartphones.

However, a number of important mistakes were made by Microsoft. Initially, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer often commented that the iPhone is not suitable for professionals because it does not have a keyboard. As a result, many believe Ballmer missed the start of the touch era, simply because he wanted to make the iPhone laugh.

Then, all these years, Bill Gates was relatively absent from several important decisions concerning the course of the company and especially the mobile sector.

Gates resigned as CEO in 2000 and took on the lead role of software architect. In 2008, Gates resigned and took over as president until 2014. Over the years, the company has made a series of mistakes about Windows Phone and released one of its worst operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista.

Gates may not be directly responsible for the failure of Windows Phones, but the fact that he decided to retire at such a pivotal moment for the company marked the beginning of the end for Microsoft's mobile operating system.

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