Whatever. Ballmer just likes to yell and say outrageous things, it's kind of his calling card.
Microsoft has nothing to do with this, anyways. Windows Mobile flat out sucks, and nobody in their right mind develops for it hoping to put their stuff on cellphones. Android is essentially trying to create a market where there is none currently (the cell phone software industry is negligible at the moment), and Microsoft will neither profit from nor be hurt very much by it, whether it succeeds or not. The real people to worry about are the phone companies, who do have the ability to crush it.
Keep an eye out: http://www.ohadev.com will have a lot of feedback on the SDK tomorrow, that's where I'll be hanging out to discuss this stuff. Let's hope the SDK is solid.
“Apart from the fact that it's got a bit of infamy to outgrow, the old model was a pretty sharp-looking handset and the Storm2 refines that look in all the right ways.”
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Whatever. Ballmer just likes to yell and say outrageous things, it's kind of his calling card.
Microsoft has nothing to do with this, anyways. Windows Mobile flat out sucks, and nobody in their right mind develops for it hoping to put their stuff on cellphones. Android is essentially trying to create a market where there is none currently (the cell phone software industry is negligible at the moment), and Microsoft will neither profit from nor be hurt very much by it, whether it succeeds or not. The real people to worry about are the phone companies, who do have the ability to crush it.
Keep an eye out: http://www.ohadev.com will have a lot of feedback on the SDK tomorrow, that's where I'll be hanging out to discuss this stuff. Let's hope the SDK is solid.