{"id":3119,"date":"2015-07-12T20:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T06:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2015-07-12T20:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T06:14:59","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/12\/mobileviews-podcast-122\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"audio_iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/kn7gu-574c26\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jon Westfall and I (Todd Ogasawara) take a look back on Microsoft&#8217;s ultra-mobile strategy since 1996 in light of its recent announcement that it will write down $7.6 billion in assets related to its purchase of Nokia&#8217;s smartphone business and lay off an additional 7,800 employees (most of whom came to Microsoft from Nokia). Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/2015\/07\/08\/microsoft-announces-restructuring-of-phone-hardware-business\/\">Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find more details and my recollections of Microsoft&#8217;s mobile strategy since 1996 in this article I wrote for Extreme Tech: Microsoft Windows Phone: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/209542-microsoft-windows-phone-a-20-year-retrospective-of-a-meandering-mobile-strategy\">A 20-year retrospective of a meandering mobile strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also briefly discuss Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10166 released on June 9 and my initial impressions of joining the smartwatch club by buying a Moto 360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Westfall and I (Todd Ogasawara) take a look back on Microsoft&#8217;s ultra-mobile strategy since 1996 in light of its recent announcement that it will write down $7.6 billion in assets related to its purchase of Nokia&#8217;s smartphone business and lay off an additional 7,800 employees (most of whom came to Microsoft from Nokia). Ref: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[174,4,126,8,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-mobile-devices","category-mobile-devices","category-podcast","category-windows-mobile","category-windows-phone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-Oj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}