January 25, 2007
Ballmer's Jive Talking: Or Steve vs Steve
How unoriginal. Like Pavlov's dog reacting automatically to the jingle of a bell, Steve Ballmer went on about the new Apple phone (which has no VoIP), saying how it was overpriced and overhyped. Yeah, it is overpriced (Apple's making 50% = US$250 profit on each unit.)
Gee Steve B, kind sounds like your blabber about how innovative the new MS Vista OS is. Golly gee, it's only bloody operating system, and unless you've managed to come up with your own version of Mac OS X or Linux, I'm not buying it. In fact, I'm really not buying it. When I buy my next PC, I'm explicitly going to ask that it not have Vista. That is, if I don't buy a Mac instead. (Will probably buy both, but I won't spend $500+ on an "iPhone" with no VoIP.)
I never understand how Microsoft and Apple keep getting called rivals. They have NEVER been rivals. One is a software company and one is a hardware company. It's like comparing... well... hardware and software. Microsoft might have ventured into videogame hardware (which Apple has stayed away from) and the Zune, but Apple's media player (i.e., iPods) are miles ahead on design. Microsoft is just playing wannabe. And this supposed fight for the digital living room, can't be a close call. It's like Mohammed Ali (Apple's iTV) going up against my grandmother (Microsoft's Media Center Edition OS). There's no comparision. Again.
Now Microsoft's stock might have gone up 60% over the past 6 months, compared to sideways behavior for 5+ years, but Apple is Steve jobs is Apple, and Microsoft was Bill Gates is not Steve Ballmer. Jobs has a brilliant mind, and Apple has incredible design. Without Gates, all Microsoft has left is Ballmer's bluff and bluster. Which is why they won't dominate the IP world, in VoIP and IPTV and media players.
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