“Apple has 0% share of the sub-$400 ‘budget’ smartphone market by sole dint of the fact it doesn’t sell a budget iPhone,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“But hey, don’t let that get in the way of Microsoft trying to claim they are outselling the iPhone in the under-$400 market, which is sort of like saying that Louis Vuitton is outselling Apple in designer clothes,” Brownlee reports. “In an interview with TechRadar, Microsoft’s director of communications Christopher Flores said that Windows Phone was outselling Apple’s iPhone line-up in 24 markets globally. When TechRadar appeared skeptical, Flores admitted these were ’emerging markets’… in other words, markets where a phone needs to be super-cheap to succeed, and which Apple is not even targeting.”
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MacDailyNews Take: When the only way you can win is to compete against those who aren’t playing, it’s time to try a new game.
Microsoft. Employing an endless parade of delusional bastages for nearly four decades.
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lol…”delusional bastages”!!!
This guy should be the mouthpiece for Obamacare.
Give it a rest already, will you?
Delusional???? are you kidding me?
I have see tons and tons of pink elephants caring Windows phones and not single pink elephant with iphones..
Also I saw Mr. Mad Hatter using one..
Men Mr. Ballmer, this shit is good. 😉
Interesting how they completely ignore the iPod touch, which is the iPhone without the phone. It does everything else, including making phone calls using VoIP. So I’d say Apple has a healthy chunk of the sub-$400 market.
You do realize that some people occasionally go outside.
Fargin’ Iceholes!
Fargin Corksuckers!
Fargo, North Dakota! …wait…
Johnny Dangerously right? Just checking cause I always assume.
[if so] Funny how those lines from that movie just keep on giving.
“When the only way you can win is to compete against those who aren’t playing, it’s time to try a new game.” There’s always Solitaire.
One *could* say Microsoft have been playing with themselves for years…
Well… Is Luis Vitton outselling Apple in clothing?
They (Apple) sell a hell of a lot of Apple T-shirts at the corporate store inside of One Infinite loop. Hats too!
Now I’m drawn between going to One Infinite Loop next month or Aruba. I can get t-shirts and hats in both. Hmmmm! It’s zero degrees F where I am.
And with the Pinto in the 1970s, Ford had the market for explosive compact cars all to themselves.
And are still #1 with the Ford Escape 2013 recall for engine fires. Aptly named, eh?
FUD at its finest. When you have to resort to spinning like this, you’re pretty desperate. We might get our shorts in a knot when reading BS like this, but both the media and even Wall Street won’t be fooled. It only makes Microsoft look more pathetic. There was once a time when Microsoft would have gotten a pass for this, and its fawning collection of PC media lackeys would have gotten plenty of mileage with it (except for Rob Enderle, but that’s another story). Today however, crying wolf like this now falls on deaf ears.
I can only shake my head and wonder, “what next?” That this even saw the light of day tells me that CES is a non-event this year.
Flores was the right hand man trained under Baghdad Bob.
Microsoft has been lying for years, in hopes if they say it enough SOMEONE will believe it! One of my favorite OMG lies was from Bill Gates around 2007 when he said: “Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”
I just thought what drug is this man on? And who the idiot that is now going to believe that quote.
Who cares what Microsoft does. I only care what Apple does. Besides, Tim Cook has said many times he cares about customer sat[isfaction], not number of units sold.
Although it might not mean anything to you but the story was enough to spook Apple investors to sell off their shares while the rest of the stock market is well into the green. Very few people on Wall Street ever listen to what Tim Cook has to say or even worse, believe he is a liar.
What a coincidence, that’s how we feel about you.
That’s all right, I never believed that Iraq was involved in second 9-11 terrorist act (not to be confused with the first 9-11 where foreign terrorists took over a democratically elected government) and I never believed that they had weapons of mass destruction and I never believed that Colin Powell was telling the truth to the UN.
I do believe that Microsoft is getting it’s share of kharma, and so will Whore Street along with that puke of a terrorist nation that thinks it can get away with torture, illegal invasions, total disregard for privacy and a long list of etceteras.
After all when you’ve totally lost the plot and the entire moral high ground there’s not much else you can do, unless of course you think you can change the game a be a wannabe threat to global security.
I bet the iPhone 4S is kicking their ass in the under-$450.01 market.
Wow. Microsoft isn’t in Kansas anymore. But, unlike Dorothy &Toto, they never will be again.
Aren’t tornadoes a bitch?
I didn’t know Marijuana was legal in Redmond, Washington, yet!
It’s like saying Hyundai outsells a Bugatti year after year. lol
And let’s not forget the lying bastards over at Amazon: http://macdailynews.com/2014/01/06/apples-ipad-air-vs-kindle-fire-8-9-hdx-amazon-is-simply-lying/
It’s a shame when companies have to lie to puff themselves up with outright lies and distortion. Apple innovates, the rest salivate. Can’t wait to see Apple’s financials towards the end of the month. Should shut all their mouths with their low margin, cheap plastic crap.
“Apple innovates, the rest salivate” ! Will reuse this gem and credit you.
When life gives you lemons….
What, what ???
MS is accustomed to making outrageous statements (misleading to outright false) and never getting called to the carpet by the tech press.
However, it looks like those days are coming to an end.
Microsoft and their ‘attention getter’ ways…
Speaking of playing Solitaire… “and don’t play with yourself. It wouldn’t look nice on my highway. Oh, you can think about it, but don’t do it.” – Sheriff Bufford T. Justice
Speaking of Solitaire and Microsoft:
One of the interesting little known facts is that the version of Solitaire that came with Windows 95 was actually tweaked slightly to let you win more often than would happen with an unbiased deck of real playing cards. Microsoft’s rationale was that people are happier when they can take a break and win a simple game. Microsoft felt this helped sell Windows in the 90s.
Desperately, desperately steps the loser Microsoft.
I never thought I would say something like this.
As background, I’ve been a hardcore Linux user (Desktop user) since 1998, and a loyal Mac user since 2006. So,. since 1998, I have not owned any computer with any Windows OS on it. I always hated it, and I swore never to user Microsoft products again. So, other than some mandatory Windows machines at work (I always carried my own laptop with me though), I’ve been Windows free for 16 years.
My carrier doesn’t support the iPhone, but as an owner of an iPod Touch and an iPad, I know the experience first time.
I got an Android phone from my carrier. I hated it. It was a pain to use. Nothing was intuitive (typical Google), and I wanted to change it. Of course, I wanted an iPhone, but well…
So, the called me and offered me a discount on some new smartphones (like a $500 Samsung Galaxy for $150), to which I said “there’s no way in this life or the next one I’ll pay $150 for an Android phone. They are not worth it”.
They offered me a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone for $10.25. I thought, “Well, worst case scenario, for ten bucks I can always go back to my old phone”, so I got it.
I hate to admit, I like the phone a lot. Sure, it’s still far from an iPhone. But the experience is far better that Android. The phone is useable and intuitive enough. It lacks a lot of my favorite iOS apps, but there are enough available apps to make it a decent phone for work. The screen is very responsive, resolution is fine (never Retina display though), but if I ever have to choose between any Android phone and a Windows Phone, it’s a no brainer for me.
Do I feel a little guilty for liking a Windows product? Sure. But as a long time Windows basher, I’ll take my hat off and acknowledge that they build a nice product for once.
At least it’s not a blatant copy of iOS, and they are paying Apple for the patents they’re using.
So, in my opinion, Windows Phones beat the hell out of Android any day. My 2 cents.
I still can’t belive I’m writing something pro-Microsoft. THis is very weird…
Testimercial
Wrong. I’m ONLY talking about the phone. I’m not encouraging anybody to switch. I’m just saying it’s much better than Android.
On the other hand I’ve seen Windows 8 on the desktop, and it’s horrendous.
And my own experience with Android has been like my experience with Windows on the desktop: horrendous.
I also didn’t mention the phone is a Nokia, a brand I stopped using a while ago, after being a loyal customer for years until getting the worst phone I ever had from them.
Do I believe in second chances? Yes. I got a good Nokia phone. And I like Windows mobile.
And once again, it’s no on the iPhone league.