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Monday, April 30, 2007

MacNN | Ballmer: iPhone has ‘no chance’:The iPhone has no hope of gaining a true foothold in the cellphone marketplace, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The company head told an interviewer at the USA Today that, as with computers, future control of the mobile handset business would primarily depend on software influence rather than hardware. Apple’s insistence on attaching its code to a premium device could prevent it from getting any more than a small percentage of the world’s cellphone user base, Ballmer predicted.

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