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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer predicts the failure of Apples iPhone

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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It’ll certainly be interesting to watch the iPhone’s success or lack of this summer. I do think that the Cell Phone Marketplace is extremely competitive and tough. At the same time Apple seems to have the ability to create their own market niches and the iPhone may well do just that. While Steve Ballmer is sure of the iPhones failure, I’m not so sure.

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Posted on: Monday, April 30, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Posted by: Earl Moore
Filed Under: Apple Mac, Business, Humor
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    2 Responses to “Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer predicts the failure of Apples iPhone”

    1. Apple’s iPhone success » By Earl Moore » » Meandering Passage on September 4th, 2007 7:02 pm

      [...] thanks to John Paczkowski of Digital Daily for using part of a Meandering Passages “Pictoon” in the post titled “By ‘iPhone’ you meant ‘Zune’ Right [...]

    2. paul on September 5th, 2007 8:22 am

      They just say these things to make themselves feel better and at the same time hope that it comes true!

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