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Steve Ballmer on the release of the first iPhone: “And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very go
by benbristow 4y ago
Steve Ballmer on the release of the first iPhone:
“And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.”
- e-clinton 4y agoI mean, the blackberry was far better than the iPhone at email at the time. It wasn’t even close. Obviously the iPhones versatility won.
- re-thc 4y agoSo instead we got rid of emails! Win win.
- anaganisk 4y agoBut then we built the kraken called slack, teams.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoPfft. Voice messages
- rchaud 4y agoMicrosoft had the last laugh though. In the 2000s, Blackberry basically owned "enterprise cloud" for mobile communications; BBM and BES. Today that's been replaced by an Android or iPhone running Outlook and using Active Directory. That's really what Ballmer wanted, he didn't care about hardware or consumer applications like Apple did.
- KenArrari 4y agoAnd he was right, typing anything meaningful on a touch screen was awful up until the point swipe keyboards were made.