MacDailyNews Take: As Ballmer T. Clown itself likes to babble, “Blah, blah, blah.” We’ve heard this B.S. before: Ballmer: Apple not a hot brand, our partners will make look-alike iPhones, I gotta go – March 27, 2007
“Ballmer, whose failures in the mobile space recently cost him half his bonus, was also pressed by Fried on how his company plans to match the extended battery life and instant-on capabilities of the iPad, to which he declined a response,” Malley reports. “‘I think probably the things of tomorrow are best left for tomorrow and the things of today are best discussed today,’ he said. ‘So today, I will focus on Windows Phone.'”
Malley reports, “Still, Fried relentlessly served up tablet questions after tablet question, confronting Ballmer — who recently claimed he can glance at a room and know how many Macs and iPads are there — about his concerns with the number of iPads he’s actually seeing. ‘You certainly see more,’ said Ballmer. ‘You certainly see more than I would like. One is more than I would like.'”
Full article, with video of Fried’s interview with Ballmer, here.
MacDailyNews Take: The Microsoft brand means something to the user alright: Half-assed Apple imitator and shit-pump of needless frustration.
As for Apple’s brand:
• Apple takes 3 spots in CoolBrands UK Top 20 Coolest Brands list – September 29, 2010
• Forbes 2010 World’s Most Valuable Brands: Apple #1 – August 12, 2010
• Apple iPhone knocks Aston Martin off top of UK’s ‘coolest brand’ list – September 28, 2009
• Apple dominates Top 100 Social Brands: ‘iPhone’ #1, ‘Apple’ and ‘iPod’ in Top 10, ‘Mac’ in Top 20 – May 09, 2009
• Apple dominates The Vitrue 100 – Top Social Brands of 2008 – February 01, 2009
• Apple named top brand in 2008 Brandjunkie Survey Results – March 31, 2008
• UK teens agree on most-wanted brand: Apple iPods, Apple MacBooks and Apple iPhones – October 02, 2007
• Apple dominates UK list of coolest brands with 3 in top 20 – September 14, 2007
• Survey shows Apple near top of U.S. consumers’ most-trusted brands – April 25, 2007
• Survey of Gen Y trendsetters reveals Apple is most trusted brand – April 20, 2007
• Apple #1 brand in North Amercia, #2 after Google in global rank – January 26, 2007
• Forrester Research: Apple far outpaces Microsoft in consumer electronics brand trust – March 30, 2006
• Apple the most popular brand in U.S. and Canada; close second to Google in global contest – January 22, 2006
• Apple ousts Google as top global brand – January 30, 2005
• Apple take number one spot in US & Canada ‘Brand of the Year’ survey – February 04, 2004
• Interbrand names Google, Apple top two ‘Global Brands of the Year’ – February 03, 2004
May Steve Ballmer remain Microsoft CEO for as long as it takes!
Ok this proves it! He lost it!
Ok this proves it! He lost it!
Running the mouth again Monkey Boy?
Dance Monkey boy, Dance…into oblivion now, you ape.
Running the mouth again Monkey Boy?
Dance Monkey boy, Dance…into oblivion now, you ape.
Where’s the Ballmer in the dunce cap photo?
Where’s the Ballmer in the dunce cap photo?
Clueless Uncle Fester, a toast! As long as it takes!
Clueless Uncle Fester, a toast! As long as it takes!
Everyone I know — even PC advocates — uses Microsoft as an insult word.
Everyone I know — even PC advocates — uses Microsoft as an insult word.
There is his problem, he can’t see beyond today. A true visionary!
There is his problem, he can’t see beyond today. A true visionary!
If you don’t have a minimum kind of standard, the brand means nothing to the user… Steve Ballmer actually said this?
Apple set the “standard” when it comes to touch-based smart phones. The definition and design of a “smart phone” changed a huge amount, from before to after iPhone in 2007. The Apple brand means quite a lot.
So perhaps Ballmer was referring to the Android platform when he said “if you don’t have a minimum kind of standard.”
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If you don’t have a minimum kind of standard, the brand means nothing to the user… Steve Ballmer actually said this?
Apple set the “standard” when it comes to touch-based smart phones. The definition and design of a “smart phone” changed a huge amount, from before to after iPhone in 2007. The Apple brand means quite a lot.
So perhaps Ballmer was referring to the Android platform when he said “if you don’t have a minimum kind of standard.”
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“Our brand means something to the user. It means something to the developer. It implies a certain level of consistency and high quality. . . . .”
Hey, he forgot malware, spyware, viruses, worms, system crashes and freezes, Blue Circle of Death, . . . .
“Our brand means something to the user. It means something to the developer. It implies a certain level of consistency and high quality. . . . .”
Hey, he forgot malware, spyware, viruses, worms, system crashes and freezes, Blue Circle of Death, . . . .
You certainly see more,’ said Ballmer. ‘You certainly see more than I would like. One is more than I would like.'”
This sums up the difference between Microsoft and Apple in a nutshell. Microsoft can’t stand to see other players. They want to own the segment, yet they can’t possibly compete solely on innovation. Apple, on the other hand, doesn’t focus on the competition. They just want to make the greatest products available.
And that is why they do.
You certainly see more,’ said Ballmer. ‘You certainly see more than I would like. One is more than I would like.'”
This sums up the difference between Microsoft and Apple in a nutshell. Microsoft can’t stand to see other players. They want to own the segment, yet they can’t possibly compete solely on innovation. Apple, on the other hand, doesn’t focus on the competition. They just want to make the greatest products available.
And that is why they do.
Oh yeah the Microsft brand means a ton to me personally. I have so many memories of windows…
Like the sluggishness of explorer, the super ugly and unintuitive GUI, all the viruses, the expensive anti virus software, the random MBR corruption and finally the loss of both the source code and executable of the first game I wrote. Ahh… Such fond memories.
Now whenever I see anything made by Microsoft I emediatly avoid for fear of the same sort of stuff (at least that’s what the brand means to mean)
Ps: just so u know I haven’t owned a machine that runs windows for~ 4 years 😀
Oh yeah the Microsft brand means a ton to me personally. I have so many memories of windows…
Like the sluggishness of explorer, the super ugly and unintuitive GUI, all the viruses, the expensive anti virus software, the random MBR corruption and finally the loss of both the source code and executable of the first game I wrote. Ahh… Such fond memories.
Now whenever I see anything made by Microsoft I emediatly avoid for fear of the same sort of stuff (at least that’s what the brand means to mean)
Ps: just so u know I haven’t owned a machine that runs windows for~ 4 years 😀
As long as it takes!
As long as it takes!
The man, Balmer, can’t be this dull, can he?
It’s like he’s taking a dump in the middle of a sidewalk, pants around his ankles, pretending nobody notices.
Jobs and Apple are blessed with this dork in charge.
The man, Balmer, can’t be this dull, can he?
It’s like he’s taking a dump in the middle of a sidewalk, pants around his ankles, pretending nobody notices.
Jobs and Apple are blessed with this dork in charge.
Ahhhh, so that’s the techtard Ballmer’s problem, he’s been looking in the crystal ball to the past!
Hard to stomach/believe the self-serving blatantly inaccurate comments out of his mouth. It’s like he’s hoping as he blathers along with both eyes closed that he’ll open one of them and see everyone’s fallen for his crap load of lies and falsehoods, as the flying rotten tomato scores him dead-on.
I notice we’ve been seeing the low-class and a-hole side of many tech CEO’s lately, but Ballmer T. Clown is the cream of that crop. He has no touch at all with reality. The reflection he interprets in his mirror is a suave Errol Flynn in his prime, instead of the actual reflected Uncle Fester with a lit light bulb in his mouth (now I guess an LED bulb.). Too bad those big floppy clown shoes keep tripping him up.