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iPhone does not change anything - says Microsoft

Posted by: Brandon Steili on Jul 25 2007

microsoft = titanic

NBC’s Tom Costello visited Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, near Seattle, to check out what is Microsoft up to, when it comes to “what is Microsoft’s answer to the iPhone?”. He recorded a video report about it.
Interestingy Robbie Bach, who is a President in Microsoft for Entertainment Devices (including Xbox and Windows Mobile), says about iPhone:
it doesn’t change our strategy any, it doesn’t change our approach

I’m sorry, but this clown needs to be tossed out of the building on his ass in front of every other employee at Microsoft, and then Steve Ballmer needs to walk up the to the microphone and tell everyone that they need to innovate or die.

If a new device comes to market in direct competition with you and sells 1/2 million+ in the first weekend, continues steady sales for almost the next month after launch, with a price tag $300 higher than the average price your devices can sell for and you don’t take notice …. you are a moron and your company deserves to die a slow Nokia death.

I understand the target market blah, blah blah … but business users are consumers too. You think that blackberry users don’t own iPods? You think Mogul owners don’t own iPods? People want slick … not the same old shtick. And if Microsoft doesn’t do something to counter this current device by Apple, they will continue to lose market share. Apple is only going to improve the iPhone - they don’t go backwards. People who bought iPhones will continue to buy the next generation devices after this… right now this is Apple’s game to lose and having used a fair amount of them over the last couple years I don’t see that happening.

Catch the video HERE

msmobiles.com - iPhone does not change anything - says Microsoft

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