This year’s Microsoft shareholder meeting wasn’t a lot of fun for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, thanks to shareholders grilling him about Apple and the iPhone with questions like the above. Ballmer smacked him right back:
There’s certainly always opportunities for improvement. There is a group of people with whom our market share is less. You take any country, including this one, and you say, how are we doing? The truth of the matter is, we do quite well. Even among college students, we do quite well. Do we have an opportunity for improvement? We do. Some of that is marketing some of that is phase of life.
It is important to remember that 96 times out of 100 worldwide, people choose a PC with Windows, that’s a good thing. Even in the toughest market, which would be the high end of the consumer market here in the US, 83 times out of 100 people choose a Windows PC over a Mac.
Ballmer also remarked that Apple has gained a few “couple of tenths of a per cent of market share”, but when the audience chuckled, he was prompted to correct them:
Every couple of tenths matter. They matter when we’re increasing our Bing market share, too.
Ooooooh, you are good, Mr Ballmer, you are good. There were many other piercing questions about the iPhone, Android. Check them out at: [Techflash]
Bennish
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:17 PMMan. Ballmer actually impressed me there. Maybe he’s not just Magilla Gorilla after all.
Gavinci
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 8:40 PMMS do not need to worry too much about The Fruit. Something is happening to Apple. For example,Jobs’ one liner response to the iPodRip, and seeking to take out Oz Woolies for using a logo like an apple, has bruised it deeply. Any dolt could see that it in both cases Apple products are being hugely promoted, – ugh!. But it is aggressively concerned, -about what?