Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release"

Bergkamp10 writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to shoot down Google's new mobile platform at a press conference in Tokyo. Ballmer called Android a mere 'press release' at present, and said the mobile platform market is 'Microsoft's world.' Ballmer dodged requests to comment on specifics of the Android software platform, preferring instead to highlight the successes of the Windows Mobile platform which he said is on 150 different handsets and is available from over 100 different mobile operators. 'Well of course their efforts are just some words on paper right now, it's hard to do a very clear comparison [with Windows Mobile],' Ballmer said. 'Right now they have a press release, we have many, many millions of customers, great software, many hardware devices and they're welcome in our world,' he added."

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Re:Vaporware?

[ozmanjusri]

I wonder whether you're being honest. I've used several Windows Mobile phones and can't think of a single crash

On the other hand, I KNOW you are lying.

I've used and developed for handheld computers since the original Palm Pilot 1000, and still have the first 1000 I ever bought. I've owned or been issued handhelds running just about every system available, and I can state without a doubt that Windows Mobile is easily the most unreliable.

If you haven't had a crash or lockup on yours, you haven't been using it.