“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).
…that people actually read that crap and find it credible.
Like, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU EVER WANT TO ASK MICROSOFT FOR ITS OPINION ON ANYTHING????
Just means that AAPL stock has still WAY WAY WAY to go because there are still LOTS of people who are going to buy Macs and buy AAPL stock.. They just don’t know it yet.
Shouldn’t it be more like a whine, “Waaa, Apple’s not going to let us catch up in the smartphone market”?
@Crash,
“Whats the matter fanbois? You really need to keep up. Iphones have sold 4 million, and Microsoft has their os on 14.3 in the last six months, expecting 20 million this year to add to their 10 million last year. For reference The software behemoth recently announced its sales of Windows Mobile-running smartphones around the world in the last six months: 14.3 million. Sure, Apple’s sales don’t even come close at around 4 million”
1. Being called a fanboy by a Windows Apologist is kind of like being called a retard by someone with autism. Has sort of a “pot calling the kettle black” ring to it.
2. There my be more Windows Mobile types of devices in the marketplace, but they’re NOT SELLING WELL. Read it again. NOT SELLING WELL. Fact is, the ONLY country WM devices are selling AT ALL is in the US; WM devices are a tiny blip on the smartphone market screen when you look at the worldwide numbers.
At least Apple has a good excuse for it’s 4 million sales number: it only available in 6 countries. What’s MS’s excuse?
…I’m waiting…
BTW for all you Windows-loving trolls here at MDN who swear up and down that WM is the greatest, pay attention:
Apple attained 28% of the fastest growing market for mobile devices (North America), is currently the worldwide #3 smartphone hardware vendor and #5 OS vendor, all in less than 10 months of shipping, and in only 6 countries. (the Netherlands and Ireland just added).
Do you honestly think the momentum for Apple will stop once a 3G iPhone is available with 2.0 software, enterprise support, and legal 3rd party apps, not to mention the IMO brilliant worldwide iPhone advertising, which actually shows how the device works?
Apple is just getting started, kids. No RDF or Kool-Aid drinking required, just plain old common sense.
I have a touch-screen WinMob Phone (O2 Xda). I have challenged half a dozen people to make a call on it. Only one could – with some instructions. It is that bad a phone.
They may technically be a ‘smart phone’, but they are definitely not SMART phones.
The better result is: who uses the smart phone features?
Microsoft?
Never heard of them.
‘They are not going to catch up, Microsoft SHITFEED more licences of its mobile platform than RIM and Apple did handsets put together last year,”
😀
Does anyone here remember Monty Python And The Holy Grail?
Remember the scene where the black knight is blocking the bridge? Arthur chops his arms and leg off but the knight keeps taunting him? This Scott Rockfeld comment is that funny.
what? like theirs no american troops in iraq?
/lying minister
In a related story, manufacturers of buggy whips and saddles are not worried about Henry Ford’s “model T”.
-jcr
Gotta wonder if that “SHIFTING” is between a storage warehouse in Washington and a storage warehouse down in the Cayman Islands.
To – – you know – – that Shell Company in the Caymans whose job it is to make the US Corporation’s spreadsheet look good. It worked really great for Enron!
-hh
What the complete, accurate sentence would look like:
“‘ We think we’ve got the one mobile platform that you alone, Katie Scott of Pocket-lint, will use for the rest of your life,'”
My concern is for the reporters attending the M$ press conferences. Isn’t dangerous to have somebody flailing a growing pointy nose at the audience. Aren’t they going to poke someone’s eye out?
Just my $0.02
From Crash’s link:
“Whatever the numbers are, Microsoft can’t reasonably claim a “victory” over Apple until it starts making some phones of its own. Until then, they can preach it all they want, but it doesn’t mean much.”
THANKS, Crash ! ! LMFAO ! !
“For the record, the iPhone is available in what? A dozen countries? Your boasting is pointless. “
Only a mindless fanboy could come up with that statement. We’re better, we’re way ahead, and the only reason we’re behind is that we don’t offer the product everywhere…..
If M$FT has the one mobile platform blah blah blah, why did they open up Exchange support for the iPhone? Could it be consumer demand??? Naaaaah!! [/sarcasm]
‘They are not going to catch up,’
Scott: Your looking out the front window, not the rear view mirror.
Hmmmm. Let me add to MS’ worry. As soon as the new iPhone comes out,
iPhoneCount++; // Purchased by yours truly! 😀
“For reference The software behemoth recently announced its sales of Windows Mobile-running smartphones around the world in the last six months: 14.3 million.”
for reference, nobody in the history of the world has stopped another person with who has windows on their phone and asked to drool over it.
also, nobody cares what cheap crappy little throw away phones run. they will be thrown away anyway. microsoft and their kind just don’t get it. never have, never will….
When will people realize that advertising a phone that has windows mobile on it, is not a feature. It’s a warning label!!! Much like the yuck sticker so kids don’t drink poison
@ Me- Blame the “Great One” if you know anything about Hockey, you know who that is…
@Crash- two words for ya “Goodwin’s Law”. Game over we win, have a nice day.
Apparently not many posters have had first-hand experience with MS reps. This is one of the their standard mantras along with: “… Apple is obsolete…”; “… it’s not a true business-class computer…”; “… it’s only for hobbyists…”; “… Apple is doomed as a long-term investment…”; and etc. and etc. These guys and gals are literally programmed to say this stuff and it’s disgusting – even to many die-hard Windows users. You can tell they don’t even think about what they’re saying, they’re just told to say it and they do.
The downside is that, they still don’t have to really spend any time justifying these mindless sayings simply because Windows still has the largest installed OS base on the planet Earth.
We are not at all worried….
That was what the Titanic’s chief architect said…
@Pete…It’s just a flesh wound…..lol
I did read that correctly right, he did not say “hopes of dominating the smartphone platform market” but definitely the “smartphone market.”
Now let’s see, Apple has sold 4 million iPhones and Microsoft has sold how many mobile phones exactly?
Funny how MS thinks that the platform is only the software.
please iCal this
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