Briefly: Leopard on iPhone; MS vs. iPhone

numbers? Zune has 20 to 25% of the high end ($249 and higher) mp3 market? Since when? What is Ballmer smoking?

Um, wasn't it obvious that the iPhone is running Leopard when Steve said it had Core Animation capabilities?

He's just p*** as usual about Apple. Zune is a flop and Apple has a better mobile system.

You're telling me! Seriously this guy MUST be on crack. Maybe he meant they got 25% of the market for MP3 players priced between $249 and $250... Wait, nope, that can't be it, the 30 Gig iPod sells for $249... Oh, I got it, they got 25% of the market of MSFT employees who bought MP3 players priced $249 and up... There it is.

Since when does everything MSFT does have to be about business (outside of the Xbox)? Why can't it be about the normal person in life and not about the corporation? Do families and personal lives not exist anymore in their lives?

There is nothing that will appeal to businesses with the iPhone?

Well, lets see. Over 70% of all businesses in the US are small to mid size companies. Not the massive organizations like MSFT, Walmart, GE and others. Balmer is probably right in that "class" of business users. I own a small business and what the iPhone has (feature wise) will serve about 90% plus of the normal business needs. I guarantee Apple is not sitting on this one day of iPhone glory. They have a road map and they will deliver some neat stuff.

Balmer is blowing smoke on that one becuase like everyone else, it caught him off guard.

Now the 20% plus percentile of the upper end mp3 players? Where did Balmer get that statistic from? His neighbors kid? Puh-leze! You noticed how he squirmed on that quote?!! That's because he pulled it out of his butt.

Again, he is humbled by the number of ipods sold quarterly. The player second to ipods (according to actual sales figures, not the neighbors kids) is from SanDisk of all companies.

MSFT and Balmer need to keep focusing on their core business and leave the personal entertainment and computing sector to companies that serve it better. Not everything is about the big co. bottom line.

that in 6 months Apple will have the most expensive phone in the market by far. I guess he didn't see the news of the LG Prada phone recently announced that will sell in European and Asian markets for €600 (US$775). Oops! Who's the most expensive again?

What a colossal idiot that man is.

Ball-me is just being a sore loser because Apple is always several years ahead of MS. When did Apple say that the iPhone is targeted specifically at business use? And is he actually to stupid to understand the concept of a completely software-based interface? The screen can as easily give you a qwerty keyboard (which, if it uses the entire screen, will be significantly larger than anything on a current smart phone) and then just as easily give you a hundred other ways to get data into the device.

Don't get me wrong, I love Apple and hate Ballmer and MS, but Ballmer saying the iPhone will be the "most expensive phone on the market" is no less accurate than Steve Jobs saying the iPhone is the "thinnest phone on the market".

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