MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

 MacDailyNews Poll

Deal of the Day

5 Day Most Commented

Opinion Archive

Current Headlines

Latest Joy of Tech

  • Latest Joy of Tech!

MacNN

AppleInsider

Macworld UK

TUAW

MacRumors

Yahoo! Finance AAPL

iTunes Top 10 Albums

Mac OS X Downloads

Mon, Sep 06, 2010 - 02:07 AM EDT  —  AAPL: 258.77 (+6.60, +2.62%)  |  NASDAQ: 2233.75 (+33.74, +1.53%)

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer’s iPad envy (with video)
Friday, July 30, 2010 - 02:30 PM EDT

"On Thursday Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Apple has sold more iPads than he would have liked, and discussed Microsoft's plans to improve the quality of tablet devices that run Windows 7 OS," MarketWacth reports.

Advertisement: Protect your iPad with the invisibleSHIELD.

"WSJ's Marcelo Prince and MarketWatch's Rex Crum join Simon Constable on the Digits show to discuss Microsoft's strategy," MarketWacth reports.

Ballmer's iPad Envy:

Direct link to video via MarketWatch here.

MacDailyNews Note: This video is from MarketWatch.com. If you cannot see it, please ask them when they plan to support your device(s) here. You might want to remind them that, in addition to yours, there are 100+ million more iOS devices out there, too. Ask them if they ignore/fail to serve any other platform with an installed base of 100+ million?

Bookmark and Share

Always -- Free ground shipping with orders over $50 at the Apple Store.

Reader Feedback: = registered.
Unregistered users: Feedback from multiple usernames are subject to deletion. Off-topic and posts from suspected astroturfers will be removed.

Reader feedback page 1 of 1 pages:
Jul 30, 10 - 02:40 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

looks like dancing monkey boy lost some weight...

Jul 30, 10 - 02:55 pm Comment from: Jersey_Trader

3D software, in almost every case, requires Windows. Ex: Solid Works. Then trying to push those 3D files into a CNC machine again almost every time requires Windows.

Apple needs to offer these Windows only software suppliers some programing help or buy or develop the software for the Mac OS X. 75% of the students in college are now Mac users and they will be forced to develop things in Windows in the business world when they get a job. Anyone see a problem? If Apple wants another market, it would be theirs in a heart beat. Anyone see an iPad or iPod touch as the plugged in CNC controlling device?

Jul 30, 10 - 02:55 pm Comment from: @ Jim - TIV

its from all that dancin'

Jul 30, 10 - 02:58 pm Comment from: Jersey_Trader

Jim - TIV, he is getting real old and that leaves him little time to crush Microsoft into obscurity. He is on schedule but he can only dance so hard for so long now.

Jul 30, 10 - 03:00 pm Comment from: Jersey_Trader

Did you all notice that the talking heads really do not see that it is more than the iPad hardware and it'd iOS 4 that is creating the tsunami demand for it? Were clueless and unable to see a bigger picture.

Jul 30, 10 - 03:17 pm Comment from: elgarak

WTF does he care? Microsoft's a SOFTWARE company. Make software for it, and everyone's happy.

Jul 30, 10 - 03:17 pm Comment from: scott

remember how he predicted it would flop? He either doesn't know sh*t or he is in serious denial

Jul 30, 10 - 03:27 pm Comment from: really?

anyone's game?? WTF?

Jul 30, 10 - 03:30 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

@Jeresey_Trader
The iPad is not running iOS 4, at lest not yet.

Jul 30, 10 - 03:54 pm Comment from: Me In LA

If you were Dancing Monkey Boy™ you'd lose weight too trying to catch AAPL and running from stockholders...

Jul 30, 10 - 04:01 pm Comment from: Bobchr

@jersey trader
You can write an app for that the SDK is pretty cheap CNC machines run on spatial data input. You can spit that stuff out from OSX just as well as windows. You can probably control a CNC machine from a cell phone text message if you can pump it out to the USB port.

Jul 30, 10 - 05:22 pm Comment from: kris

3D tits is all I see!

Jul 30, 10 - 06:31 pm Comment from: zubonhebi

Gotta love the guy. Every time he opens his mouth I want to run out and buy more Apple stock. Apple should pay to clone him and create an infinite dynasty of Ballmers.

Jul 30, 10 - 06:35 pm Comment from: Lemon

I can watch the movie on my iPhone. Why should I complain MDN?!?

Jul 30, 10 - 08:50 pm Comment from: Macromancer

"looks like dancing monkey boy lost some weight..."

The copying of Steve Jobs continues.

Jul 30, 10 - 09:00 pm Comment from: Frank

Damn Rex..chin implant not too obvious there buddy :o

Jul 30, 10 - 10:17 pm Comment from: Josh

Wish they'd sort out their audio - when the chick was speaking it was peaking all over the place ...

Jul 31, 10 - 09:32 am Comment from: clyde2801

So a video about ipad envy about an apple competitor being picked up by a ipad fandom site using a format that can't be displayed on an ipad?

It's like one of those little russian dolls, but containing irony.

Jul 31, 10 - 01:19 pm Comment from: Loran

The embedded video doesn't play on MDN, but the video on the MarketWatch site that is linked, plays just fine.

Jul 31, 10 - 01:47 pm Comment from: Earlyred

Apple meeting.
"Lets make something new and cool".

Microsoft meeting (6 months later)
"Lets do what they are doing"

Win 7 on a tablet is just funny...

Aug 01, 10 - 12:45 pm Comment from: RePlay

Dance Monkey Boy…I just bought mine!

Aug 02, 10 - 04:36 pm Comment from: Mark Whitted

MDN: Why were you telling me this video wouldn't work on my iPhone? I assumed you were correct and took your advice to write to MarketWatch. I looked like an idiot. :(

Aug 02, 10 - 05:32 pm Comment from: Scott

Nice going MDN. You embed a flash file and think it'll just magically work on iOS devices. MarketWatch does support iOS if you actually go directly to the video - maybe you should embed the right thing before telling people to complain?

Aug 02, 10 - 10:54 pm Comment from: Kit-N

Goofy guy in the middle certainly has the hots for the little hottie!

Funny to watch.

Unfortunately, I would be the same way. red face

Aug 03, 10 - 02:49 pm Comment from: Joe

If you are going to embed a flash video, don't complain about marketwatch not supporting your stupidity. embedded flash won't work on my ipad.

and yes, Emily is hawt!

Reader feedback page 1 of 1 pages:

Always -- Free ground shipping with orders over $50 at the Apple Store.

Add Your Feedback:

Register or Login

Name:

Email: (optional)

Emoticons | Allowed HTML Tags

Remember my info   Notify me of follow-up comments?

Please enter the "MDN Magic Word" you see in the image below: