Windows phone was started way before him and it was to far gone to be fixed by the time they got to windows phone 10. Just like he said.
But again the reason Kinect and band were dropped was because the software didn't make sense on those devices. They didn't change the game up.
You're right, the cloud is a huge thing for them just as anybody with that infastructure, but they are focusing on QUALITY hardware now as well. One X is such a solid and high quality product just like the surface line. They are building Core OS specifically to make better hwardware.
Hardware is a key factor for them they just have to take the surface model and apply it elsewhere which is where the One X seems to be taking it.
Same as surface and whatever Andromeda ends up being.
We'll have to agree to disagree. It was Mobile First, Cloud First, now it
Mobile First, Cloud First, one could argument mobile as in other mobile devices, but those apps are just a portal to the Cloud. Yes, they are going premium with hardware on Surface and Xbox but that is to fill gaps in hardware for specific segments.... as they have extend Win10 until the rest of their cloud services are ready,
you are talking years down the road yet. They would rather you just play Xbox games on your PC than to buy a Xbox console, next step they will rather you bought your Xbox game and play on a virtualized Windows machine, game streaming or win32 cloud application layer - all these services are not complete.
Phil's job is real simple to describe, but very hard to execute, imo:
1.)
keep as many of the Xbox users in the eco-system while the cloud services are being built (their virtual windows desktop service rolled out in the Fall, basically an AWS workspace/citrix alternative)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/
- they are still building out game streaming service
- they are still working on an application layer from the cloud to run win32
2.) once they are built,
convert as many of these users from hardware user to cloud users
We are still talking
years out, Phil has a tough job. imo Sure, they will roll out new hardware, as they need to keep the existing customers (on Windows/Xbox) until they can roll them into cloud services, not all the services exist
yet. Once their services are all in place, they stop maintaining local OSs, most of their code willl be in the cloud to maintain except the portal application to access those services.
All Roads Lead -> DA CLOUD
(Sorry, if derailing the topic, just trying to answer/discuss a sub-topic)