[Star Traveler]

Good ole Steve Ballmer... :-)

[Star Traveler]

I like seeing Steve Ballmer at a Developers Conference... LOL...

Steve Ballmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

See Steve Ballmer’s “marketing strategy” outlined, by the man himself... :-)

[Erik Latranyi]

Free MSM drooling over the iPhone helped sell many, many units.

[domenad]

See I like the Zune better than the Ipod. I actually hate the Ipod, but it has all the aftermarket crap that I need, plus I have an Ipod alarm clock and an IPod enabled stereo system. I must be a true moron.

[webschooner]

Ballmer and M-soft has more that iPhone to worry about, and they know it -- The successful Google Android OS, out just under a year now, and which is in the process of coming out on a number of new phones on multiple carriers, worldwide, is also eclipsing Windows Mobile, as this chart and acompanying article from www.androidandme.com shows.

AdMob released their mobile metrics report for June and Android usage continues to grow.

Request from the Android operating system grew 25% month over month. This now gives Android a 5% worldwide OS share and marks the first time they have pulled ahead of Windows Mobile.

When you narrow the reporting to only the US, Android has an even larger share of the smartphone market. In the states, Android has grown to a 9% share and closing in on Blackberry who enjoys a 14% share. With the wave of new Android devices coming this holidays, I expect Android to surpass Blackberry by the end of the year.

Also noted in the report is the share of requests by operator and manufacturer. Nearly half of the requests from T-Mobile are with HTC. This tells me the G1 has been a huge success for T-Mobile and finally given them a product to promote their expanding 3G network. The pending launch of the myTouch 3G should only increase HTC’s share of smartphone traffic with T-Mobile.

In the United Kingdom, Android requests are now at 7% which is more than Windows Mobile and Blackberry combined. These numbers match the traffic on my site and show that the UK is the second biggest country to support Android. I expect these numbers to grow as well with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy and HTC Hero.

[Paradox]

Silly fanboi article. Wonder if this is at all news.

[dalereed]

I wouldn’t have an I phone if they paid me to have it!

[weef]

Can you think of a Microsoft product that is truly a joy to use?

My Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 has been pretty nice. Hasn't been truly a joy to use but it's pretty nice.

[ctdonath2]

While we’re having a vigorous debate about iPhone vs. Windows, let me toss this tangent in:

I’m sitting here with a 3GHz 4GB quad-core dual-head Dell PC, only slightly behind the bleeding edge of the desktop PC experience. I’m listening to music via Windows Media Player.
Two issues leap out:
1. The darn thing SKIPS/STUTTERS every few seconds! WTH?
2. To avoid blowing my eardrums out via normal headphones, the volume is set to about 1% of maximum. 1%!
This is among the simplest of modern applications: playing MP3 music thru headphones - yet MS can’t even get that right! Stuttering? Ear-shattering default volume? C’mon MS, _get_it_right_already_!

Funny, my iPod & MacBook gets it right. Hit “play” and everything works the way I expect.

Attention to detail. Little things make/break the user experience. Make it, they’ll buy more; break it, they’ll go elsewhere.

[Swordmaker]

Steve Ballmer should be eating crow now about his iPhone comments of two years ago... PING!

Eating Crow Ping!

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