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04/26/2006, 3:50pm, EDT
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MS says phones to dethrone iPod
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes Apple's iPod will be dethroned by a new generation of mobile phones. "We will soon witness a lot of innovations and changes in portable devices," Ballmer said at a management forum in Berlin. "Portable music is not limited to iPods," the executive added. The head of Microsoft also believes competition with Google is an open opportunity, according to heise online. "Half of the time that we look for something, we don't find it. There is a lot of room for improvement," he explained. The actual innovation that Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page unveiled was not the technological aspect of internet searches, according to the executive. "They were the first ones to realize the potential of online advertising. The Google business model is the actual innovation," Ballmer said.
The CEO added that he feels partially responsible for failing to understand the challenge Google represents to the software giant quickly enough.
"I was just as mad at myself as I was at our research and development department," Ballmer said.
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It'll be an Apple phone that will surpass it.
Have Samsung SCH-i730, but Windows Mobile 2003 is killing it.
He's a madman.
I'm sure Balmer also can't see that in 20 years the market for 'air' will surpass all other industries combined.
Vista soon to be released in 2096...coming to a moon rock near you...
chances are good iTunes will be around longer than M$ and be more profitible and still have zero bugs and we won't have to wait until the cows come home to eat steaks.
and besides that, i'll probably have to pay verizon $1.99 per song to transfer them to my phone through their amazingly slow data network that's only available when i'm facing north on route 4 coming out of topeka. rather inconvenient considering i live in pennsylvania.