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Steve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone

Sander Duivestein · 853.2K views · 2011-07-06 · 0:45

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A one-minute clip of Steve Ballmer laughing at the original iPhone and dismissing its price and appeal.

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jve · 2023-06 · Joke / meme

To everyone complaining about the price, let's add Steve Ballmer to the studio, he will give some weight to your words: [VIDEO]

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fossuser · 2020-10 · Criticism

Yeah, while Google immediately scrapped their blackberry like phone project to quickly accelerate an iPhone-ish design for the first android phone, Ballmer made MSFT's probably largest strategic mistake: [VIDEO] I don't buy the 'things were in motion' while he was there, I think if they were it was in spite of his direction, not because of it.

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mwerty · 2020-01 · Joke / meme

Steve Ballmer points out iphone's "disadvantages": [VIDEO] The bet is that the advantages outweigh the negatives.

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