Well the media events, just become more theatrical, don’t they? The dominance and significance of the Apple iPhone SDK, has, well, overshadowed most of what is going on in the tech world today. All of the dumbfounded reactions, and speculation as to how it will shape the future of  mobile technology are well founded, but I think FakeSteveJobs encapsulates it perfectly

Yeah, we rocked your friggin world, right? I mean 29 June 2007 might be the day the world changed, but today it just changed again. BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but now they are even more dead. Google’s Android is dead. Samsung is dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead. UTStarcom is dead. We’ve thrown $100 million into an iFund so people can build iApps to sell on iTunes and give us 30% of their iMoney. The coming onslaught of new applications will make iPhone the only smart phone that anyone in the entire world will ever want to use.

There were other things going on in the world today, though, what do you think could make the Ballmer do a little dance like this? Hit what looks like a play button, at the bottom of the video graphic, to see Steve’s  audition for " So you think you can dance"

In what appears to be a highly orchestrated, if not scripted, keynote interview at Mix 08, Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki

Kawasaki, a former Apple fellow and Mac evangelist who now splits his time as a venture capitalist, author, and public speaker, minced no words in his public inquisition of Ballmer. Wielding a new MacBook Air laptop computer, he baited Ballmer about a host of topics, including Google, problems with Windows Vista, and competition with his own former company.

played a pre-ordained game, or are both taking the same hallucinogens.

The prominent question had to do with M$ trying to acquire Yahoo, and even though Ballmer barked like a yappy dog, once the initial interview was over, that was the monkey on Ballmer’s back.

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