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It may be true Microsoft didn't want to get into mobile initially but this quote from Ballmer in 2007 about the iPhone says everything: "it doesn't have a keybo
by treebeard901 10y ago
It may be true Microsoft didn't want to get into mobile initially but this quote from Ballmer in 2007 about the iPhone says everything: "it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine."
The [old] Microsoft was not able to see mobile as anything other than another way to sell outlook.
- snerbles 10y ago> The [old] Microsoft was not able to see mobile as anything other than another way to sell outlook. This is best evidenced by their pre-iPhone smartphones, most of which were little more than PocketPCs with keyboards and cellular hardware tacked on.
- marssaxman 10y agoHmm. I'll give him that, since I still think phones without keyboards are not very good email machines. How can you touch-type with nothing to touch?