“Speaking to Pocket-lint at the launch of Windows Mobile 6.1 in London, Scott Rockfeld, group product manager at Microsoft’s mobile communications business, when questioned how Apple and Google poses a threat to Microsoft’s Mobile OS said: ‘We are not at all worried. We think we’ve got the one mobile platform you’ll use for the rest of your life,'” Katie Scott reports for Pocket-lint.
“Rockfeld was quick to dash Apple’s hopes of dominating the smartphone market: ‘They are not going to catch up,’ he said before reminding us that Microsoft shifted more licences of its mobile platform than RIM and Apple did handsets put together last year,” Scott reports.
Full article here.
Microsoft really needs to stop feeding their employees those delusional asshole pills.
Factoid: Apple’s iPhone has only been available in four countries (they just added countries five and six, Austria and Ireland, two weeks ago) for 10 months (US – June 29, 2007) or less (UK and Germany – Nov. 9, 2007, France – Nov. 29, 2007).
Just because they shifted them doesn’t mean people actually bought them. Dumba**
“We are not at all worried. “
Boy, aren’t those becoming famous last words!
Need a pucker button for iCal.
Can’t reporters construct a sentence?
“”Rockfeld was quick to dash Apple’s hopes of dominating the smartphone market:…”
Rockfeld made a boast. I doubt if he dashed any hopes at Apple. To the contrary, I’m sure he fired up the motivation.
Shifted more licenses? What in the hell does that mean?
The lemmings are obviously addicted to the “delusional asshole pills.”
What the hell does “shifted more licenses” mean?
“Shifted more licenses”
Certainly sounds like a little obfuscation to me. If they’d have sold more licenses, then he’d have said so. The way he put it, it sounds like they’ve just moved a bunch of numbers around a financial statement, and shipped a bunch of CD-ROMs to retailers.
“delusional asshole pills”
You can wash them down with a can of the beige MacroSloth Drink
@ R2: I think that it means they shifted them off the shelf, and into the garbage where they belong!
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!!! LMFAO!!!
PS: AAPL stock up 6+ points right now, shares are at $149.53!!!
“Microsoft really needs to stop feeding their employees those delusional asshole pills.”
LOL…. MDN has some of the best quotes out there. Err those pills came out of Balldys rear end right? yuck!
shifted is a British thing…but just turn around the f and the t in that word and you get something far more appropriate…
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“We think we’ve got the one mobile platform you’ll use for the rest of your life”
Notice how he omitted the phrase “want to use”…
How much will they pay off the mobile company like they did the movie studios…
Shifted more licenses.
Like Vista and computer manufacturers, Microsoft has sold Windows Mobile licenses to Phone manufacturers. Whether the phones or computers ever get made or shipped or sold is not Microsoft’s concern.
They get their tax and they don’t give a crap about anything else.
More bullshit and fud from the crack addict management at Redmond.
Biggest case of denial I have ever heard.
Agreed MDN. Agreed
“We think we’ve got the one mobile platform you’ll use for the rest of your life” Cause if we have to use this thing much longer we will all kill our selves :-().
He’s just stuck in some sort of anti-Reality Distortion Field – kinda’ like the evil Kirk on that star trek episode…
This isn’t news. Everyone but the MAC lemmings know that Apple is going nowhere in the smartphone market. I give them a year to exit altogether.
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hahahahaha. Not at all worried. Translation- We’re worrying our buts off. We’re worried about the desktop market, the phone market, and the desktop publishing market. Even if we maintain a dominant share of those markets, Apple is going to make double digit gains, meaning we are in for double digit loses.
Seriously, I don’t know anyone using windows mobile for anything. I do know several people using mac os for everything. . . Micro$oft is a bloated pig, having captured market share, there is no growth remaining, only decline. Sure, Apple will hit this wall as well, but not for 10 years. Sorry microshit. There is only room for loss.
This statement from Micro$haft is like those old Chrysler “K” car commercials with Ricardo Montalban where he said “More people actually preferred the “K” car than the Mercedes.” Yeah…umm…ok…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
I can’t believe Microsoft is comparing that license bullshit to actual devices sold. They’re delusional.
We think we’ve got the one mobile platform you’ll use for the rest of your life
So, does that mean Windows Mobile will drive you to suicide, or will it just take years off your expectancy?
MS is already well into the death spiral (kinda like a zune going down the toilet). Expect the claims to get more hilarious as the end nears.
How did they know I moved from a blackberry to an iphone. I didn’t tell anyone, nor did anyone ask me.
Sounds like someone isn’t acknowledging that big elephant in the room and only sees the peanut in its mouth
As Steve himself said: innovation is all about skating where the puck is going to be, not where it is now.
Some companies (Samsung Instinct) understand the concept of the game, and give it their best shot – to where the puck is now, or was some months ago, only to find that it has moved, and then they’ll shoot again.
The gang at Micro$oft today don’t know what the puck we’re talking about, but happily shout: hey look, I can skate too!!!
If now only the iPhone would make its way to NL… (this version, or the next one, don’t really care…)