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Still doesn't explain why they would bring a shitty product to market and spend millions promoting it. Truly think Ballmer has no shame and doesn't get embarras
by hop 16y ago
Still doesn't explain why they would bring a shitty product to market and spend millions promoting it. Truly think Ballmer has no shame and doesn't get embarrassed. Its npt like the phones didnt come across his desk. MicroSoft needs a general for a CEO that can bring everything together, know what a great product is, focuses R&D, and ships products people love.
- rbanffy 16y ago> know what a great product is, Microsoft has long lost this ability. Too much Kool-Aid, IMHO. They really believe they are a cool company.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoWhy? Win Phone OS 7 (or whatever the fuck they're calling it these days) is further out than most people appreciate. Meanwhile, winmo smartphones have fallen off the map amidst the fast pace of iPhone and Android development, winmo is approaching ipaq and palm levels of market irrelevancy and it's only going to get worse. MS just doesn't have the development pace in the winmo division to keep up with Google and Apple pumping out new hardware / software every few months. Kin was a stopgap measure to try to throw something, anything, at the problem. It was dumb, but dumb moves are born out of desperation.