Steve Ballmer: Apple iPhone is a no hoper
Apple, Personalities, Telephony, Wireless-Mobile May 1st, 2007
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Steve Ballmer: Apple iPhone is a no hoper
Microsoft continues to pretend that Apple is somewhat going to fail with their upcoming mobile phone product Apple iPhone.
Microsoft does not manufacture mobile phone themselves but they do provide their Windows Mobile platform to other mobile phone makers.
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer was quoted as saying to a media personal that the Apple iPhone has “no hope” of gaining a foothold in the mobile phone market.
He further claimed on the market share of mobile phones powered by their Windows Mobile platform: “Would I trade 96 per cent of the market for 4 per cent of the market? I want to have products that appeal to everybody.”
Incidentally, Microsoft as a software provider holds just 5.6 per cent of the mobile phone market. Symbian is the market leader with around 72.8 per cent market share. Even Linux has a bigger market share at 16.7 per cent.
Ballmer added in his statement: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60 per cent or 70 per cent or 80 per cent of them, than I would to have 2 per cent or 3 per cent, which is what Apple might get.”
AT&T has already confirmed that they have received more than 1 million queries related to the Apple iPhone which is expected to be launched in June this year. A lot of these people could become the owners of the iPhone when it is launched in America and that is a pretty impressive number for a company which has never made a mobile phone before.
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Steve Ballmer is 100% correct in his prediction. What he is not telling is that the iPhone has “no hope” because it’s entirely based on stolen technology that Steve stole with the help of Larry Ellison in 2003. Alot of us already know the story; but sadly the clueless masses continue to fall at Jobs’ feet as if he were some kind of Messiah. Rumour has it, though it is hard to confirm, that the inventor of the stolen technologies powering the iPhone has “teamed up” with Gates & Ballmer in some capacity (though not with Microsoft). This may or may not be accurate, but if it is, that would account for Ballmer’s confidence and good mood.
I notice the word rumor used and one expressing a statement using that word should be removed maybe steve jobs is not the greatest but he is bring it to the market place and i have not seen all that tech on one phone before. only the people that have used the iphone should make claims the rest is just rumor and has no place in the market. Please gates and ballmer are no peaches but very much only in the market for there own gains same for jobs but to make statement about a product on with out see it and testing it is not helpful. I can make all the statement I want about the Iphone but it means nothing till I have used it and can talk with some knowledge.