“Back in January, I raked Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer over the coals for announcing in a TV interview that the iPhone was “the most expensive phone in the world.” His own HTC Windows Mobile phones are $900,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone back in January on CNBC:
“Of course, he compared the $500 iPhone to the simple Motorola Q, which was on sale for $99. What he didn’t say was that the Q was only offered at that price when users signed up for an $80/month contract over two years, a $1920 commitment,” Eran writes.
“With the new plans announced by Apple and AT&T, that has changed. The minimum plan with unlimited data is $59, or $1416 over two years. That makes the iPhone over a hundred dollars less than Verizon’s limp Motorola Q,” Eran writes.
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
Take that, monkey-boy! You fahking lame-a$$ dip-sh1t dumb-fuk. Go throw some chairs you freak. Go do what you are good at you Frankenstein impersonator. Dweeb. What a great CEO: Catheterized Elephant Organ.
Well, what’s new? Does anybody ever think Balmy is telling the truth anyway?
just another tool in the collection of k-mart tools
ballmer don’t sound so stupid in that interview.
So how does that Motorola $80 plan compare to the iPhone’s $59 plan? Just curious..
@Goliath
It’s $21 more expensive
Comments from the trolls in the other thread(s) about the pricing plan being anything but a good deal???
Anyone?
Bueller?
Surely this man isn’t as ridiculous as he sounds, and acts. Well, maybe he is.
What happens when The Steve introduces the iPhone with iSight built in for Christmas? All together now: “Meet George Jetson, Jane his wife …”
And the chairs just keep on flying.
To further Tremor’s Ferris Beuller theme…
Ballmer must be using…. something d…o…o economics, anyone?
VOODOO economics
My Sprint Treo with data service runs on average $70-80/month and that is for only 300 minutes. And do not get me started on the lame web browsing experience, lack of memory, inability to sync with my iTunes library, crappy Mac software, etc., etc., etc.
I want an iPhone.
Spark:
[$1920 + $99] – [$1419 + $499] > $100
Goliath, it provides unlimited data (unlike the Q’s plan), and I believe the Q has a few more voice minutes (like 450 to 550 or so.) A. K. A., the Q is a ripoff.
@Spark
Well, that much is evident… However, my question was how the PLAN compared, not the price.
Does anyone know what sort of quantity limit the Apple stores will be placing on iPhone purchases?
No, sorry–the Q’s plan doesn’t even offer more minutes
Ballmer should be asked about this at every possibile moment available to ask this next month.
I am sure that is not accurate, any one else agree
I got the Moto Q last year for $99 through work. Of course that requires you to get the “unlimited” data plan for $39.99 per month on top of the voice plan we already had. This got me to $80 per month for 450 minutes. The plan may be similar, albeit $21 per month more, but the phone is where the difference is. The Q sucks! I’m on my second one, and it still will turn off on it’s own. I thought it was the keyboard, but I use the lock now. I wish I could get an iPhone, even at the increased monthly rate.
Ballmer is the stereotype of what European executives think American CEOs are like: Aggresive neanderthals. When Paine Weber (a U.S. stockbroker company) was taken over by UBS (a Swiss company), the first thing they did was look for “intelligence” in the company and moved them into leadership positions. They got rid of all the cowboys.
Last year I started to buy my train tickets from my mobile. Duh. Occasionally I send friends who can’t find the restaurant or whatever I’m in the GPS location – and they just run “fastest route”. Not sure what item your gf meant ? – just call her and make her watch through your mobile cam. Still, these are things rather primitive compared to Tokyo cellusers: need a location? just hold your cell infront of those small pixels on the closest billboard or any flyer – data transfer done; maps and everything you might need. Looking at the iPhone feels much the same as when I watch Windows from an OSX perspective: bling bling. Oh and now some 12yr old genius goes “yeah but Apple is all about simplicity…”. Wake up.
Greg L;
Balmer is not, nor will he ever be, a “cowboy”.
He is a MonkeyBoy, and that’s something far, far worse.
I was making a joke, y’all.
“Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!”
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/buckaroo/buckaroo2.wav
Mr. Ballmer sucks in so many ways, this is just another. Don’t get me wrong though, long may he reign! I really want to see that crash and burn, flameout scenario someone once eloquently describe here a while back
Uh… what was I going to say? Oh yeah, Go Apple!
Ballmer is such a disingenuous schmuck that he could probably eat sh*t with a smile.
Ballmer will remain the Chair-thrower in Chief at Microsoft until the company’s top shareholder decides that the job of running the empire is too much for his only friend in the world. Until then, the brain drain will proceed, and the chances of anyone being able to return MS to competence will diminish.
Dr. Lawrence Peter should dedicate all future editions of The Peter Principle to Ballmer.
-jcr
Another pricing comparison performed tonight:
Apple iPhone vs. BlackBerry Pearl Red (Both from AT&T)
After 24 months, the iPhone is $100 cheaper.
Here is the math-
iPhone $499 + 24 * (39.99 + 20) = 1939
Pearl $0 + 24 * (39.99 + 44.99) = 2039
The Pearl is on a special:
Price $399.99
2-yr Contract Price $249.99
Online Discount – $149.99
Mail-in Rebate Card – $100.00
*Online Price $0.00
Thank you Apple for changing the game. First by pricing the data so affordably, it’s clear than everyone with have data on their phones within 3-5 year, because of this. Next, thanks for getting us away from all this pricing nonsense. In the example above, I’m buying a brand new BlackBerry for 0 after rebate, discount, contract price. It’s stupid. I like the idea of paying a reasonable price for a reasonable phone (iPhone) and $20 for data. In the third year, the savings really starts to add up. Then there is a $400 difference in total ownership cost between the two; iPhone winning, of course. THANKS APPLE!!!
No taste, no originality, no integrity.
It tells you an awful lot about Europeans when they don’t even understand what a cowboy is. *shaking head* I hope you find your “intelligence” somewhere, Europanzies, before the Muslims take over your countries.
You’re EXACTLY right on point!
Add to that a substantial dose of “appeasement” by the Europeons as a way of not historically dealing with issues, and your point is complete!
@BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots and @ for BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots;
Yeah, back in the day, many European countries and media called Reagan a cowboy – that ‘cowboy’ presided over the fall of the Soviet Union! They were so afraid of him they SPENT themselves out of business!
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