“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday that although he is pleased with reaction from partners and developers to Windows Phone, the products have not been flying off store shelves as well as he hoped,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD. “‘We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year,’ Ballmer said, speaking at the company’s financial analyst meeting.”
“What Microsoft has managed to do in its year on the market, Ballmer said, is create ‘a very strong third ecosystem’ to offer an alternative to Android and the iPhone,” Fried reports. “Most importantly, Ballmer said, the company has landed, with Nokia, a hardware partner that is fully committed to Windows Phone.”
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Fried reports, “Nokia has said it hopes to introduce its first Windows Phones somewhere in the world this year, but has yet to announce any details on where or just when the phones will arrive.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The more problems Android encounters in and out of courts of law around the world, the better Windows Phone ’07 looks to Android “partners” who now find themselves on the outside looking in following the Google-Motorola Mobility tie-up.
The iPhone and iPad wannabes of the world may soon need a more legal and — after all of the legalities are settled and royalties affixed — affordable pretend iOS. Microsoft may end up being the beneficiary, especially if HP continues their pathological quest to flush webOS into oblivion. If so, Ballmer ends up looking smart and gets to continue as Microsoft CEO which is a Very Good Thing™ for Apple and the rapidly growing numbers of people who are smart enough to avoid Microsoft products like the plague that they are.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]