“In its first full quarter of sales, the iPhone has already climbed past Microsoft’s entire lineup of Windows Mobile smartphones in North America, according to figures compiled by Canalys and published by Symbian. That puts the iPhone ahead of smartphones running Symbian, Linux, and the Palm OS, but behind the first place RIM BlackBerry. The figures mesh with retail sales data already reported by NPD, which similarly described the size of the US market with a 27% chunk bit out by Apple’s iPhone,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for RoughlyDrafted.
“Apple’s debut at second place across the entire North American smartphone market region for the third quarter ending in September is particularly noteworthy because the iPhone was only being sold in the US, and is only available through AT&T; all of the other mobile platforms are available to Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile as well as AT&T,” Dilger reports. “The iPhone wasn’t available in the significant markets of Canada and Mexico, along with parts of the US that AT&T does not service, including much of Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Alaska.”
Much more in the full article here.
There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, April, 2007
Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone, January 17, 2007:
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oGaZIKYvo
Apple to Microsoft: “BOOYAH!” LOL
Said it before and I’ll say it again. Pretty soon, people ALL over the world will own Macintosh computers in the form of a phone. Once that happens, why would you want a Windows box?
The iPhone may not be available in Mexico but I have a lot of friends, who like me are using it. In fact I would say that the same stats obtained in the U.S. apply to the people I know in the IT industry.
Meanwhile the weather forecast calls for more showers of chairs and thunderous outbursts in the Redmond area.
i love that video, absolute fear haha
As Steve Ballmer throws another chair or two…
20% – 25% of the $249+ market, we don’t compete at the low end – Ballmer.
Now they do, their $249 Zune is in the bargain bins at $80.
Where’s the thrown chair graphic MDN?
Why does Ballmer still have a job?
What a … <– ([moron, thoughtless, stupid, idiot, fool], choose at least one).
To Ballmer-
How does it feel to be a f-ing idiot? How are you going to spin this one? You are beaten. It’s only a matter of time. Eventually you and Gatesy will be exposed for the dumbasses you are. Pushing inferior, buggy, swiss cheese, infested, illogical software to the masses for years. I will enjoy watching you fall.
Even funnier quote:
“…But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”
I’m sure he would prefer to have that much; apparently, he never did, nor will he ever get anywhere near that much. And Apple is fast approaching its target.
I can’t wait for the next chance some creative, resourceful journalist would get to talk to Ballmer, to pull out these statements and call him on that. I would pay good money just to see the reaction on Ballmer’s face and here him squirm.
I love that video too…
TELCEL is already selling the iPhone in Mexico, but they sell it with no contract. The weird thing is that you can buy a iphone in almost any TELCEL retail store, but their web page does not states that they are the official distribuitor of the iphne.
I love how he seems visibly uncomfortable in that interview.
BTW, today’s lunch special on the Microsoft campus: Crow.
All I’m waiting for is the next gen version of the iPhone (not the simply flash memory update). Once that happens, which is supposed to be in the latter half of 2008, Apple has my money. Add me to the count!
According to Balmer, Zunes big strategy is “Community”. Even there short lived commercials tried to imply that there was nothing more fun for a group than to all plug into their Zunes and start squirting. Did anyone at Redmond actually look at the reality of personal entertainment devices, such as the iPod? You plug your ears, tune out your surroundings, and let your brain be stimulated by what is pumped out by the device. It is the LEAST community-friendly device ever invented. There are scores of research papers decrying iPod users that are shut off from their surroundings while immersed in their personal and private entertainment. Zunes big strategy was a non-starter from the beginning.
That’s amazing. I mean, I hoped, but I didn’t think it would actually happen. At least not so soon.
I would love to see Google win the bid on the 700Mhz spectrum, then Apple start selling phones for it… that would be a dream come true.
That video always makes me incredulous that the CEO of a major corporation can lie through his teeth with absolutely no consequences what so ever. Billy Boy (AKA Turtle Boy – trademarked by Ampar) has been doing the same for years without anyone ever calling his bluff or asking to see the “facts” he is citing.
It kinda reminds me of John Street here in Philly and the stats he makes up off the top of his head during press conferences.
But Microsoft marketing has a new strategy.
Their newest and shinier Windows Live Messenger with embedded advertising and feature-stuffed instant messaging will storm the smartphone market.
It will be called Windows IMmobile.
MDN,
I like the new registered symbol. Very Apple-like!
to expand on Spark;
The ‘Welcome to the social’ theme epitomises what was the cause of the downfall of the dot-com bubble. Somebody in Microsoft came up with this ‘brilliant’ idea where a group of people would exchange files through a wireless interface and that would make for an appealing feature. This reminds me of a story about a dot-com company from the high-flying years. This fictitious company came up with an idea of controlling computer monitors remotely through a web interface. You wouldn’t need to be in front of your monitor, pushing buttons, in order to change contrast, brightness, hue, resolution, etc. You could do that by accessing all the settings from anywhere in the world through a web browser. The story follows the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of this company, its founders, developers and other staff. The ‘brilliant’ idea is just as absurd as social interaction between portable audio player users.
Microsoft is going down, one business at a time.
Ballmer is the George Costanza of CEOs: whenever he says something, believe the opposite.
@Cubert: Pity the poor Temple students next year who’ll draw the short straw and get John Street as a professor. He’ll be teaching Revisionist History 101.
Cubert: I heard a rumor that the Turtle Boy and Fester Show might be opening for the next Hannah Montana concert tour. They’re going to wear latex masks and squirt the crowd with Super Soakers to warm them up. It was J Allard’s idea.