“Once again, it’s Mobius time! Mobius is an invite-only event, hosted by Microsoft, where the invited guests are shown what Microsoft is doing in the mobile space,” Jason Dunn reports for WIndows Phone Thoughts.
MacDailyNews Take: WinMo market share charts marked Double Black Diamond? Microsoft code monkeys staring at their cubicle walls until it’s time to punch out? Trotting out Ballmer T. Clown to talk up a whole bunch of gibberish about yet another epic, dead-in-the-water Microsoft failure?
Dunn continues, “After the day of presentations, where each attendee received a 32 GB Zune HD.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, fer cripes sake. Here, the photo speaks at least a thousand words:
Full article here.
They look bored.
Ouch! Would like to see what the rest of the invitees were rockin’.
They do look bored. A Zune as a present? When I first read that, even though I know it’s a MS event, I thought MDN was joking.
It is like when Steve Ballmer was on the TV news talking about the new Windows 7 and behind him was Windows 7 running on the Mac screen. Any Mac person would see it and Ballmer had know idea what was going on.
How can Microsoft stand it? It’s fairly ballsy of the attendees, maybe each one of them said “maybe they won’t notice just one”
Wonder if the netbooks are Hackintoshes.
what in the hell are they going to do with Zunes? What a stupid thing to give someone.
I’m surprised they were able to fill an entire day with what they were doing in the mobile space.
Heeheeheehehehe, muahahahahahahaha!
The author of the original article purportedly claimed (in a tweet) that the distribution was more like 50-50 (Mac – Win), and that he was sitting on the “win” side, with a better view of the Mac folks (just by coincidence).
Even if that is true, it means that in a MS-sponsored event, where participants are supposedly heavy MS developers and influencers, HALF of them actually CHOSE a Mac notebook!!! This in fact does not surprise me all that much (if you actually know something about computing, developing software, etc., you’d be hard pressed to choose anything but Mac). I’m sure it is a complete shock for MS.
Out of about 17 comments (till now) on the original article (coming from true MS fans), more than half mentioned the picture. “That image must have made MS marketing wince in pain” (paraphrasing one of the posters). And they were giving away their new Zunes to all these Mac-using folks! I’m sure those Zunes will be on eBay come Monday…
Will their new Zune even plug into their Mac’s?
LOL! I don’t see any problem with the guess showing up wearing Armani suits at a Walmart event!
Priceless, Apple should use this shot in the TV ad.
I wonder just how many 32 GB Zune HD were found in the trash after the event was over?
They gave away Zunes ’cause they had a bunch of extras
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Let me put it another way, what better way to “show what Microsoft is doing in the mobile space” than to give a Zune HD to Mac users and tell them to go sync it?
Not everyone is using a MacBook…
…see the guy in the background texting on his iPhone?
@The Other Steve:
I love it: “go sync it” has to become the new FU phrase from M$!
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Look for a bunch of Zunes on e-bay shortly
@Original Shiva: Those are all the attendees.
@The Other Steve: If they’re running windows on those Macs they can indeed plug in their Zune. Besides, they have to clear out the stock.
If you read the original article, it’s clear these weren’t developers at this fully-paid, invite-only junket, but tech writers and bloggers. That half of them use Macs is surprising — I thought it might be even more!
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At least Microsoft and their partners are totally above board in flat-out buying good press: Microsoft paid the airfare, meals and hotels for the invitees, and they were given not only Zune’s, but some other “high-end” WinMo mobile device.
The best press coverage money can buy. Gotta love it.
I was attending some keynote presentations yesterday at INTEROP (and Web 2.0) in New York. You could clearly see it in the audience, and there were hundreds of people watching these events. At least 50-50 was the ratio between $1k+ Mac laptops and sub- $500 everything else. And these were tech folk. And the event was quite a disappointment, with very few major exhibitors and few major speakers.
This is incredibly telling trend, no doubt. What’s most amusing is, MS still has no clue. “Win 7 is selling twice as many copies as any prior OS”, says Ballmer (not mentioning that it isn’t so hard when prior record was held by XP in 2001, when there were one fifth of current number of computers) ; “We’re still on 96 out of 100 computers” (which includes ATMs, cash registers and such). They just won’t know what hit them.
I see five Macs. That’s all? A picture of five Macs and you guys start talking about how MS is going out of business? I hope you guys save this stuff for the web and aren’t like this in real life. You’re probably weirding your coworkers out.
This remids me of the day I went to a microsoft convention to get a copy of windows nt server, and workstation.. the guy I was with fell asleep and started snoring.. we both promptly sold our copies… not only did we get free breakfast and lunch, but $$$ as well.. thanks douchbags!
Look for a sudden surplus of Zunes on eBay..
Arg.. shoulda read all the posts..