Steve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone
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What it is
A one-minute clip of Steve Ballmer laughing at the original iPhone and dismissing its price and appeal.
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Critical fossuser · 2020-10 · on “How Microsoft went from “Linux is a cancer” to “Microsoft loves Linux””
Yeah, while Google immediately scrapped their blackberry like phone project to quickly accelerate an iPhone-ish design for the first android phone, Ballmer made MSFT's probably largest strategic mistake: [this video] I don't buy the 'things were in motion' while he was there, I think if they were it was in spite of his direction, not because of it.