Everything ceo-snap
UPDATED: Daring Fireball nails it. Closed or open, the smartphone industry was stagnating before the iPhone…
ORIGINAL: Steve Ballmer is the gift that just keeps on grief’ing! Proven wrong
Confession: it was a pretty boring call from Palm CEO Ed Colligan today. No Pre release date. No Pre feature update. No assault on Apple. Nothing and pretty much
Microsoft CEO and current CES Keynoter Steve Ballmer, prior to the original iPhone 2G’s launch, had quite a bit to say:
“You can get a Motorola Q for $99.
Microsoft’s Xbox King, Lord of Zune, and Master of All Things Windows Mobile (i.e. basically in charge of everything but the revenue generating OS and Office franchises… ouch!) decided to
Pop quiz. You run one of the few CDMA-based mobile providers in the world, and while you were rumored to have passed on the original iPhone, thus locking you
Michael Dell has gone done and opened his mouth about Apple again:
“Yeah, I could take [Steve Jobs in a fight].”
He’s gone done and done it before, of course:
Ah, comedy, thy name is Lazaridis!
What, you may ask, makes the CEO of Blackberry manufacturer RIM so knee slapping-ly funny? Deadpan Setups (on April 27th) like this:
THERE’S a
Will Flash come to the iPhone? Won’t it? Will it? Won’t it?
GearLive said yes. Adobe said maybe. El Jobso said too slow, too lite — where’s my middle?!.




































