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MS says phones to dethrone iPod

updated 03:50 pm EDT, Wed April 26, 2006

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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Ballmer is fat lol

04/26, 04:00pm reply

nft

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uh huh

04/26, 04:19pm reply

M$ can't even predict when Vista releases. How in the h*** can Ballmer predict that the iPod will be dethroned? What an a$$hole!

appleisgreat

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lol

04/26, 04:24pm reply

developers, developers, developers, DEVELOPERS!!!

porieux

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probably

04/26, 04:27pm reply

but it's not gonna be running their Windows Morbid 5.

It'll be an Apple phone that will surpass it.

Have Samsung SCH-i730, but Windows Mobile 2003 is killing it.

I.P. Freely

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Mad, yes!

04/26, 04:34pm reply

He is right about one thing.

He's a madman.

msuper69

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Phony B$

04/26, 04:38pm reply

more logic from the top of the winblowz heap.

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.

Albert

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Developers developers....

04/26, 04:38pm reply

Just seeing that makes me laugh. Thanks Porieux. Steve Balmer, what a monkey boy. Mind you, I'm not a billionaire so my thoughts are somewhat mitigated.

JacquesDav

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just one song

04/26, 04:39pm reply

if i could get my verizon/moto phone to last more than 1 day on a charge, i'd say they might have something. but even without playing music my phone is dead at the end of the day. can't imagine playing more than one song from a hard drive based player without the phone beeping every 2 mins to tell me the batter is almost dead.

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.

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You just know...

04/26, 04:46pm reply

You just know that right now there's a team of people at Apple snickering to themselves...

Spacemoose

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Kinda reminds you...

04/26, 04:47pm reply

of the (probably false) fable of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

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