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Ballmer: Apple has not produced a product that customers use
- raganwald 14y agoI'm getting tired of Mr. Ballmer opening his mouth and being so laughably wrong. He's a smart guy, I can only assume that he's preaching to the choir, namely Microsoft employees that must be exhausted and demoralized by the success of the tablets that are threatening to disrupt another huge chunk of the Microsoft Windows Tax. I remember him laughing at the MacBook Air: "Where's the DVD dive?" he asked. As if anyone except MPAA executives want to carry DVDs anywhere.
- bediger4000 14y agoIt's also entirely possible that he's like the Detroit Auto manufacturer higher-ups in the 1970s - 1980s. They got no input from outsiders (a.k.a. their community was in-bred), and mechanics fixed the exec's cars every day while the execs worked. Apparently the auto executives thought that everything was OK, and that the stuff they read in newspapers was just whining. Maybe Ballmer only uses Windows. He's got a tech support guy that just fixes things, and the support guy is really good. Ballmer lives and works with people who only use Windows, with maybe the token Apple Fanboi in the social circle existing just to provide comic relief. Communication is only possible between equals, and only MPAA/RIAA C-levels, and Senators are Ballmer's equals. Ballmer exists in a bubble.
- jgeorge 14y agoYou don't tell Steve what Steve doesn't want to know. And he doesn't want to know the general populace's opinion of Windows branded products. As an executive at MSFT, your career can be largely made or destroyed on how well you protect the artificial reality sphere around the top brass. BT,DT, got the t-shirt before they laid off the person who made them.