Image Source: douglemoine.com It ‘s always fun when someone talks the talk, and then utterly fails to walk the walk.  I spotted this earlier this week at Daring Fireball, noting the prediction by Microsoft ‘s CEO of how the iPhone would do in the smartphone market: Steve Ballmer, back in April 2007 (two months before […]
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Really Bad Trash Talk: Steve Ballmer on the iPhone’s Chances

Aug 22nd 2009 by

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Image Source: douglemoine.com

It ‘s always fun when someone talks the talk, and then utterly fails to walk the walk.  I spotted this earlier this week at Daring Fireball, noting the prediction by Microsoft ‘s CEO of how the iPhone would do in the smartphone market:

Steve Ballmer, back in April 2007 (two months before the iPhone hit stores):

    There ‘s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

Then saw a report today at Apple Insider, noting that the iPhone outsold ALL Windows Mobile phones in Q2 of this year. 

Apple’s iPhone held onto a 13.7% share of global smartphone unit sales in the second quarter, outpacing Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, which now claims just 9% of the market, according to Canalys.

Good call Steve. đŸ™‚

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