Stopping people from using certain products would actually increase their desire to use it more. If the products are good people will flock to it. There's no reason to enforce guidelines unless there's some sponsorship deals or contracts involved.
Near impossible to tell multi-millionaire athlete's what phone, tablet, headphones they can use. Especially since no one has ever tried to control that aspect of their life, ever... not a good way to bring in free agents. Not many want to play for some dictator controlling owner, when they can make big money elsewhere.
Next thing he's going to hand out brown Zune's from his garage and not allow any other mp3 player.
Ballmer knows nothing about basketball and thinks he knows more about software/hardware than he does. He should just sit back in his suite and let the people who know what's up do their jobs.
After reading the article, all I can see is the monkey boy will be ensuring the clippers as a team/corporate entity will use windows products. Nothing about banning people from having their own personal items not used for team/work purposes.
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Stack Ranking... perfect for a team sport... yeah.
Nuf said!
Microsoft paid the NFL US$400 million to use the Surface "iPads" for five years: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-nfl-surface-ipads-2014-9
Couldn't we also blame Apple for not making them a better offer? It's not like Apple doesn't engage in product placement also.
But in fairness, had Steve lived to retire and bought a team, don't you think he'd have them use iPads? Oh, wait, they already would have.
True but Apple doesn't need to spend that much for product placement. I bet most players use iOS devices anyway.
Those may be the only surfaces left in five years
Yep - this is how you "build a winner", Baldmore.
And, as a courtesy, Microsoft will only use the Clippers Dancers in future Surface ads...
Near impossible to tell multi-millionaire athlete's what phone, tablet, headphones they can use. Especially since no one has ever tried to control that aspect of their life, ever... not a good way to bring in free agents. Not many want to play for some dictator controlling owner, when they can make big money elsewhere.
Next thing he's going to hand out brown Zune's from his garage and not allow any other mp3 player.
iPad-like tools for everyone