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IT Home reported on October 30 that, as AI technology advances rapidly, many developers are using large models to tinker with various older devices. For example, a developer named FORZGC announced on the Nokia Bar forum that, with AI assistance, they had created a series of apps for Microsoft's Windows Phone system, which has been “dead” for years.
The developer said they used AI to extract APIs from major websites and package them into apps usable on Windows Phone. Although these are only “simple implementations” that “can only browse,” they said that “more features could be implemented if one is willing to tinker.” They added, “I didn't expect that a system that fell into decline years ago could now use AI to make itself useful again, rather than being completely useless.”
As IT Home previously reported, Microsoft's current CEO, Satya Nadella, acknowledged in a media interview that abandoning Windows Phone and mobile devices was a mistake. He is the third Microsoft CEO to acknowledge making a mistake in mobile.
Nadella succeeded former CEO Steve Ballmer in 2014. After 1 year at the helm of Microsoft, he announced the elimination of Nokia's handset business, which Microsoft had acquired for $7.6 billion.
In an interview with Business Insider, Nadella admitted that Microsoft had not handled its “exit” from the phone business appropriately. Asked about strategic mistakes or wrong decisions he might regret, Nadella replied:
This decision [to exit the phone business] is often discussed, and it was the most difficult decision I made after becoming CEO. At the time, we discussed and decided to exit “the phone as it was defined then.”
If I could turn back time, I think we could have revived the phone business by reinventing the computing category spanning personal computers, tablets and phones.
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