by John Paczkowski
Posted on November 7, 2008 at 1:52 AM PT
I don’t really understand their strategy. Maybe somebody else does. If I went to my shareholder meeting, my analyst meeting, and said, ‘hey, we’ve just launched a new product that has no revenue model!’… I’m not sure that my investors would take that very well. But that’s kind of what Google’s telling their investors about Android.”
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn’t get Google Android
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
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Considering all the clueless things Ballmer has said about the iPhone, is this any surprise. The man is the poster child for living in an echo chamber.
Is it any surprise that he is also clueless when it comes to the Android? The man is basically saying, “They not like us. I don’t get it.”
Yep, neither the iPhone or the Android is like WIndows Mobile. And considering even sycophantic columnists who can seemingly never say anything bad about Microsoft, even most of them will tell you Windows Mobile is junk and to avoid it if at all possible.
Posted by Eric Welch at November 7th, 2008 at 9:38 am