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As if we belive anything that spurts from this man's mouth...

Yeah but can his 80+ year old uncle actually WORK a smartphone?? An iPhone yes, but not a smartphone.. Not to mention the Zune...

I wonder how often Fester let's his uncle out of the cellar...

I think you mean "squirts" from this man's mouth...

Considering that Steve said Apple's looking for 1% of the market, Ballmer just doubled/tripled iPhone's reacxh. Good show, dorko. I agree with you for once.

Getting 3% of the cell phone market would make the iPhone a huge success.

Please tell me in 10 words or less what this man knows about marketing and innovation!!!

Class!!!! - He has none. If he wasn't so damned defensive about everything APPLE  then he may have over the years that he has had a chance at playing CEO actually gets some brains in his cavity.

Phuquen idiot!

(ATTENTION PERFECTIONISTS: please pardon any dyslexia mistakes and late night additios via Brisbane.)

what a bonehead

Steve Ballmer = The Ultimate Prick

Did this a-hole say about the same crap about a little product called iPod just before it hit the street a few years ago - and we all know what happen to that products.

I'm thinking the folks at M$$$$ live in there own little world and it has little to do with the real world!

It lone past time for the rest of us to move on and away for M$$$$'s crap!

Even if Ballmer's figures were right, the thing is that Microsoft need those sort of levels to maintain an equilibrium. The only way they can profit in a market is if they have a self maintaining monopoly. Anything else and it gets subsidised by their Windows and Office profits. Even the XBOX which has sold OK isn't turning a profit. Apple can profit massively from single digit shares and ever more so once those levels increase. To start with, Apple will probably look at the iPhone in the same way they do the Mac, if it's not as dominant as the iPod they won't be overly concernved since they'll have factored that in.

Can't wait to see Ballmer eat these words......

Crow tastes good... and he should know. Between Him and Bill they eat a lot of shite.....

2%-3%!?!

Wow Ballmer, you're doubling or trippling the estimates that Jobs has been talking about. Jobs is only looking for 1% of the market.

Sounds like Ballmer is expecting MASSIVE sales of the iPhone.

Ballmer is such an idiot: " They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

Umm, you say they may make a lot of money, but then try to say that their marketshare won't be good? I guess he isn't paying attention to what's happening on the computer side of things either. Mac computers have a small (but every growing!) marketshare, and Apple is already making a lot of money there. Jobs has already said that 1% for the iPhone would be great. It's all about them making a lot of money, not bragging rights. Apple is already doing wonderful with their "small" marketshare. As this continues to grow, Ballmer will realize just how good Apple is at hitting their margin targets and being profitable. If Mac marketshare doubles (which would still be "small" according to Ballmer's "logic") and the iPhone really does get 3% market penetration, I will be one VERY happy shareholder.

I'm shocked they haven't demanded Ballmer's resignation yet. He obviously has no idea how the business he is in actually works.

MW: believe - how appropriate!

"But it's not like we're at the end of the line of innovation that's going to come in the way people use computers, do speadsheets, etc. I'll bet our ads will be less edgy. But my 85-year-old uncle probably will never own Vista, and I hope we'll get him to own OS X."

M$ is dying . . .it got Steve Emballmered

Peter Knook, head of Windows Mobile division at Microsoft, announced that Microsoft was installed in 6 million phones (including smartphones and wireless pocket PC) sold during FY 2006. The phone market for 2006 was approximately 1 billion units. The market share of Windows Mobile was therefore 0.6%. To reach 60% would require 100x what they are currently selling. They've been trying to move the needle for 4 years. (The launch of Windows Mobile for Smartphones was in October 2002.) Chances are that iPhone will outsell Windows Mobile in its first year. Ballmer lies.

What a bloody liar.
First: M$ does not have 96% market share of anything...
Second: The iPhone will be a huge success.
Third: M$ is the one who's doomed regarding music technology. There is no way in this world that the Zune will become a successful product. No way. None. Zilch. Nada.

Oh please, please, please, let Ballmer stay right where he is! As long as he heads Microsoft, there will be smooth sailing for Apple.

I just love Monday morning entertainment. Thanks Monkey-boy for providing the laughter.

I saw "The Blob" once.

Microsoft shareholders' big empty feeling begins to worsen.

Actually, I do have an iPod but we hide it in the sideboard and leave a broken Zune (which a friend gave to us) lying around when Steve comes to visit. It's best this way as it avoids embarrassment all round. Please don't tell him that I told you this though as he once threw my rocking chair through a window when I said I was thinking of buying an iMac.

Who said the brain dead can't be funny!

But my 85-year-old uncle probably will never own an iPod, and I hope we'll get him to own a Zune.

Dude- if you can't get your family members to own your product you really do suck.

A Side note = I was looking at a Urinal the other day and noticed that the name of the contraption was call a ZURN. Hmmm.... maybe that is where the whole naming of ZUNE came from and possibly the "squirt" reference. Just maybe?

From the Mac OS X dictionary :

Denial : "Psychology : failure to acknowledge an unacceptable truth or emotion or to admit it into consciousness, used as a defense mechanism : you're living in denial."

No wonder they are doing horribly - their CEO can't tell the difference between 4.6% and (60% or 70% or 80%). Their most recent quarterly report most certainly does not reflect them having sold licenses to be used on over 780 million phones. Plus, that 20% rounding error he loves to make shows that he doesn't quite understand basic statistical analysis. His numbers would have you to believe that every person in the United States has at least two Windows-based phones. I don't know about you all, but my phone (or any of my friends) does not have Windows on it. So, Mr. Ballmer, where exactly are you getting those percentages of handset OS market share numbers? Oh, that's right, your ass.

And people complain about Steve Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field"…!

I have a friend who has a phone with Windows Mobile Whatever on it, and he's going to get an iPhone the day they become available. Apparently, it's irritating as hell when a phone crashes during a call.

Ballmer needs to give up the posturing, and get his products fixed.

-jcr

One other thing: I had no idea that Symbian had 72% of the market. Well done, Symbian!

-jcr

@ Ballmer's Uncle,

You have a witty sense of humor. You are most definitely a Mac user and related to Ballmer by marriage only.

All I'd like to point out is that he's suggesting that his 85year old uncle should get a Zune instead of an iPod. Is that because it's easier to use? Or because it will let his uncle 'join the social' with it's wifi beaming feature?

Either way, it's nonsensical.

My 85 year old father owned a 1st generation iPod and it was a delight to see how much he enjoyed it for the last few years of his life.

http://www.zurn.com/pages/catalog.asp?OperationID=19

Ballmer must be a graduate of Regent University. He has a republican's way of selling his untruths.

Since you were using numbers and percentages, Ballmer, what percent of 85 yr. olds even buy any computer or music related device? I thought so.
I ask MDN to document statement about iPhone marketshare the same way Michael Dell's statement was documented. It will reoccur in a few years.

I recon Apple should send his Uncle an Ipod just to tick Ballmer off!

Even when he is right the approache of his company M$ stinks !

Ballmer's uncle is also his father.

What say we get Mr. 85 year old uncle's address - take up a collection and send him an iPod - a nano would be fine.

Sell all the M$oft shares what you have and invest the money to AAPL. M$oft is going down.

There is really no way out for people like Steve Ballmer. What is he supposed to do? Answer, " Yes our ass is getting nailed to the wall in every respect to our business!" the best thing he can do now is to lie as much as possible and try to maintain a percieved vision of Microsoft as a leader still...

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."

Really? None at all? Why would you say such a thing if you weren't scared out of your shiny bald pate?
I can see him pouring over the numbers, his jutting, simian brow pinched in concentration, tongue lolling casually out one corner of his mouth, sweat dripping from his ape-like chest.
"No chance!!!" he exclaims, reaching for another peanut-butter and banana sandwich.
What does this tell us about the man that is Steve Ballmer? Do you mean to tell me that you honestly find no threat whatsoever in the iPhone? When the wave breaks, and the iPhone sells millions upon millions of units, will this catch you completely off guard? Will you blame everyone around you for your shortsightedness? That will be a bit of a stretch, because here we are, trying to tell you, vociferously, that your strategy is in deep, deep trouble.

No Chance!

I'll remember your words, Mr Ballmer. You'll be hearing them again very, very shortly.

-c

MW: 'process' (does not equal success)

As long as the light bulb in his mouth keeps coming on, the one over his head is never going to light up.

Microsoft Innovation:
http://www.mcmillan.cx/innovation.html

Has he even used Widows Mobile. What a convoluted mess. No defending that piece of garbage. None what so ever.

Don't know about the Zune. But sales say it all.

ApplePi: There is really no way out for people like Steve Ballmer.

A tent, a table, a glass, a bottle of cognac and a pistol.

That's it! Now Ballmer's even copied Steve's "Boom!" There is nothing sacred left to copy.

Balllmer in article: "OK, well, I'll go add somebody to help me with that; boom, let's go do it."

Everyone at Microsoft is a frickin' liar, incapable of producing anything of any quality. This is just more testament to that fact. Also, the fact that Ballmer (and most of the business world) is obsessed with market share goes to show that most companies truly don't care about quality & truly don't care about the experience that consumers have with their products.

Mac o'lytes, Please give Mr. Balmer a break! How can you expect him to bite the hand that feeds him?

Not even a wild animal would do that, unless by eating the hand & therefor the owner of the hand it doesn't matter because it has a secret stash of nosh to keep it going until the opportunity to hunt avails itself.

Please explain to me how this guy can be the CEO of Mircrosoft?

Seriously.

What Ballmer forgets is that Apple generally makes a profit out of everything they do. Even the iTS service makes a profit, which now is become more significant with burgeoning music sales.

The point being is that Apple pay off their R&D;and marketing very quickly and can reap the benefits in a shot time.

Selling to 1% of the phone market would add 20 % to the iPod share and siginificantly add to their profit whilst opening up a completely new segment.

MW "planning" - a word Ballmer doesn't understand