Microsoft CEO Nadella recently brought up old grievances in an interview—abandoning the mobile business was a "the hardest decision of his life" and also a "mistake."
Fact Review
In October 2017, Microsoft officially announced its exit from the mobile phone market. It should be noted that Microsoft spent $7.6 billion to acquire Nokia's mobile business in 2013, and just two years later, it announced its abandonment. The irony is not the failure itself, but how complete the failure was: in Q4 2015, only 4.5 million units were sold, while the global mobile phone shipment during the same period was 400 million units.
Nadella's Reflection
The CEO recently stated, "If we could start over, perhaps we could turn the situation around by redefining the computing methods between PCs, tablets, and phones." But this is just hindsight - Microsoft later launched the Android phones Surface Duo and Duo 2, which still did not create a ripple.
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Dresden prosecutors just announced a major crypto seizure: €25 million ($29.6 million) worth of bitcoin and bitcoin cash traced back to the programmer who ran movie2k.to, once one of the world's largest pirated film platforms.
The Breakdown
The alleged operator has been in custody since

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Novo Nordisk just dropped a power move—向FDA提交申请，要把Wegovy的剂量干到7.2mg。听起来没啥区别？但数据说话：STEP UP研究显示，打这个高剂量的人平均减重20.7%，而现有最高剂量(2.4mg)只有17.5%。更猛的是，33.2%的人减重超过25%，这在肥胖症治疗里是个不小的数字。
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