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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hmm

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im afraid for once i have to agree with balmer :(

android is in the realm of vapourware now

did anyone notice google stocks dived after announcements of their facebook killer "open social" and the much buzzed about gphone (which turned out not to be a phone at all!) "android", investors must realise at some stage that google is a marketing company and their market cap is build on clever hype generation