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Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones

Posted by timothy on from the can-I-expense-this? dept.

portscan writes "There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank and file. The head of Microsoft's mobile division tried to explain it away as employees wanting 'to better understand the competition,' although few believe this. Nowhere does the article mention attempts by the company to understand why the iPhone is more attractive to much of Microsoft's tech-savvy workforce than the company's own products."

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  1. I loves and hateses my Preciousss by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a love/hate relationship with my iPhone. My preciousss. It's pretty and seductive, but it locks me out of stuff. For just about everything, there's an app for that, except for when Apple pulled it. It can do just about everything, but not when Apple or AT&T says it can't, like tethering. But for all it makes me crazy, I still can't seem to pause in the middle of the day without pulling it from its holster and stroking its sleek, responsive, beautiful face for a few minutes.

    Damn this stupid phone. I really should throw it back into the depths of Cupertino from whence it came, but you'd probably have to gnaw my hand off to get me to drop it.

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    1. Re:I loves and hateses my Preciousss by DogDude · · Score: 2, Funny

      It sounds like you have a problem. Might want to see professional help. It's just a chunk of metal and plastic.

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    2. Re:I loves and hateses my Preciousss by arcite · · Score: 2, Funny

      I feel your pain. The only way to rid yourself of the precious and free your soul is to throw your iphone into a volcano. Do you happen live near an active volcano? Until then, whatever you do, don't slide to unlock! It will steal your soul!

    3. Re:I loves and hateses my Preciousss by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't use a lot of apps (or games) - but the ability to choose e.g. between several different weather-apps is very comforting.

      All of them are deficient: None lets you set the weather.

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  2. I don't understand by OrwellianLurker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't understand how a company as huge and powerful as Microsoft can't release a good competitor for the iPhone. I have a Zune, and the hardware is quite nice, but the software is horrible and has given me a BSOD on three separate computers (with different versions of Windows).

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  3. It's About Time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft has a tech-savvy workforce! It's about time.

  4. Re:Do they get the Microsoft products for free? by hey! · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must have had an interesting relationship.

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