No iPhone rival from Microsoft
Isn't Microsoft to old to compete?
This news is quite disappointing. iPhone has many design flaws, so competing with it can be quite easy. Anyway Microsoft decided to pull themselves from a competition. Maybe they were discouraged to any competition after Zune fiasco. And again Microsoft had all chances to create a DAP better than iPod, or at least on the same step. Microsoft already has platform for mobile device, but very promising platform over 5 years ago now becomes ugly and outdated. I do not know why Microsoft doesn't want to invest in this direction. Obviously portable devices have a big feature and company with sufficient cash on hands can dig this market quite successfully. It is quite surprising why Gates wanted a PC on every desk, but not in every pocket.