I don’t know who gave the green light on those ill-conceived Microsoft commercials with Jerry Seinfeld, but it looks like Microsoft got their game back with these.
Microsoft got the message — it’s about the users.
Here’s another nice piece of public relations with a human face — Lenovo’s Voices of the Olympics which provided 100 athletes with the technology to blog about their experiences in Beijing.
Perhaps people are getting tired of Apple’s hip (and smug) approach. I’d rather have an inexpensive Macbook than another $100M Chiat Day campaign. Thank you very much. We’re in a recession.
This week, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer was asked why Microsoft doesn’t do its own iPhone.
According to the Seattle Times, Ballmer explained to the assembled Microsoft crowd that one phone is never going to have more than 25 percent of the market because different people want different things out of their devices. Ballmer said that if you build the phone operating system — as Microsoft does with Windows Mobile — there’s a much larger potential market.
But wouldn’t Windows Mobile have a bigger share if looked and ran like an iPhone?
According to Gartner, in the second quarter Windows Mobile was on 12 percent of smartphones, trailing Symbian (57.1 percent) and Research in Motion (17.4 percent). Apple’s Mac OS X, a version of which powers the iPhone, had 2.8 percent.
But Strategy Analytics estimates some 400,000 Android phones will sell in the fourth quarter of 2008. That’s about four percent of the U.S. smartphone market. They forecast 10.5 million smartphones to be sold in the U.S.during Q4 2008.
