Bill Gates revealed his greatest mistake of all time made Microsoft miss its opportunity with Android, partly due to mismanagement and antitrust-related issues. However, Android co-founder Rich Miner says Bill Gates is more responsible than he's letting on.

Rich Miner, a co-founder of Android, responded to Bill Gates' admission of Microsoft's $400 billion mobile market failure by blaming Gates' own choices for Android's defeat in the smartphone wars. "I literally helped create Android to prevent Microsoft from controlling the phone the way they did the PC - stifling innovation.

Bill Gates who co-founded Microsoft and remained its CEO until 2000 has revealed his life’s “greatest mistake ever” that eventually cost the company $400,000,000,000. In a conversation with Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz at an event hosted by Village Global,

Bill Gates, considered a technological visionary, admits that his biggest mistake was neglecting the mobile operating systems market. This oversight allowed Google to create Android, which dominated the market and achieved the success that could have belonged to Microsoft.