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Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated

Posted by samzenpus on from the my-kid-is-better-than-your-kid dept.

jfruhlinger writes "On the day Android Ice Cream Sandwich was released, Steve Ballmer livened up the Web 2.0 conference by lobbing potshots at Google's mobile OS, calling it the choice of 'cheap' phones and claiming 'the biggest advantage we have over Android is that you don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone.'"

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  1. Same old Ballmer smack talk by Lemming+Mark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That sounds like same Ballmer who laughed at the iPhone because of how expensive it was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

    Same negative marketing smack talk. Also, enjoy the irony that expensive phones are apparently now good, and cheap is bad. (although, of course, cheap isn't the same thing as inexpensive - it really *is* good to be neither expensive nor cheap).

  2. Re:Android has it's flaws by WalrusSlayer · · Score: 4, Interesting
    So the fact that Apple has successfully beat the carriers with a stick and essentially said "no crapware", is somehow not an advantage an iPhone?

    From the consumer's perspective, it doesn't matter where the crapware came from. If it's on the phone and it can't be removed, then you are stuck with a phone full of crapware, end of story.

    And that simply doesn't happen with an iPhone. What's so hard to understand about that?