The biggest reason Microsoft should NOT give up on Windows Phone.

<p>1 future scenario where I think this idea makes some market sense is where you combine this powerful Windows Phone/continuum with a MR headset (rather than plugging into a screen, that could be what the Andromeda thing is). Then you don't need a computer. If the MR headset can be made ~40% smaller than the current gen, &nbsp;that's a good use case. The benefit is you dont need a computer, plus you never ever need any other screen, get all your media via your phone. I can see students and young pros getting into that. But why wouldn't you just do that over Android or iOS? As soon as Microsoft did it and it got any traction, Google and Apple just release their versions, end of story. </p><p>I do think Microsoft should not give up on *mobile*, but I think the Windows Phone platform is dead, it would take an unbelievably apt and defensible killer app or set thereof for any third, differentiated platform to rise and stick in phones now. Network effects are just too great. Now, if they did some sort of Android clone in reality, or by another name (e.g.they just get all the Android apps onto their platform whatever they call it, pwa, etc, then that is a different story. The other solution is to take the low road, as in cost competition (e.g. what Google does with Chrome books, etc vs. Windows). But Microsoft doesn't go for that. I think they see themselves as a big time industry player that does not disrupt on price. Besides, Google may have occupied that niche even in phones anyway, I think that was Google's original design with open source Android, be the low price competitor, they did not realize how royally Microsoft would screw up, and hand the keys to everything to them. </p>