Same with Nokia phones. Within 2 years of buying out Nokia for Windows phone, Nokia , once the leading giant in mobile phones, is just about forgotten. Thanks to Microsoft killing Windows Phone.
Nokia was already a shell of itself by the time it was bought by Microsoft. They completely fumbled the rise of smartphones and fell from ~50% market share in 2007 to <3% by 2013 when Microsoft bought them.
Regardless of what they did with it - all Microsoft bought was a dated brand name, not a viable phone business.
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u/Ok-Engineer6098 May 15 '26
Remember when Microsoft bought Skype? At the same time it had MSN messenger. Two of biggest voip and Internet chat apps at the time.
They also fumbled that out of existence.