Steve Ballmer sends his love... "iPod users are thieves"

murkmurk
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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited January 2014
http://management.silicon.com/itpro/...9124642,00.htm



Here comes their push for subscription music. Of course you need to throw out all your mp3's. Worked real well for Sony, didn't it?



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  • Reply 1 of 26
    orbitpinkorbitpink Posts: 138member
    He insults his own Windows user base. Millions of iPod on Windows users. Smart, considering he's from Harvard business school.
  • Reply 2 of 26
    banchobancho Posts: 1,517member
    If the president of GM announced that VW's are crap (I own 2) would it make me wish to buy a GM? Nice strategy.



    Steve: It seems we have no chance to compete on merit with the iPod or iTunes.

    Bill: I'll work on getting Windows to generate some nice erratic behavior when connecting an iPod or running iTunes but I need some time.

    Steve: Ooh! Great idea! I'll start name calling and casting aspersions about the iPod and its users.
  • Reply 3 of 26
    kotatsukotatsu Posts: 1,010member
    Surely someone should post up a link to the monkeyboy video. Always good for a chuckle.



    You have to give consumers what they want.



    - Consumers have lots of MP3s. So give them an MP3 player.



    - Consumers like pretty things. So give them pretty products.



    Apple have done this, nobody else has. Add in the iTunes store and I can't see Microsoft touching them.





    I could see Apple making real inroads with the new iMac if only it was cheaper, and if they were more game friendly. So close.
  • Reply 4 of 26
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    moron. proof is in the pudding.
  • Reply 5 of 26
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    ballmer can go to hell.
  • Reply 6 of 26
    mattjohndrowmattjohndrow Posts: 1,618member
    ballmer...hmmm...anyone ever see that music video of him jumping around, and all that stuff, i forgot what it was called...
  • Reply 7 of 26
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    You want Monkey boy demanding developers, developers, developers? You got it.



    Page of mirrors:

    http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html
  • Reply 8 of 26
    kotatsukotatsu Posts: 1,010member
    Mmmmm, sweat.



    He doesn't quite have the class of Jobbs does he.
  • Reply 9 of 26
    mattjohndrowmattjohndrow Posts: 1,618member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Stoo

    You want Monkey boy demanding developers, developers, developers? You got it.



    Page of mirrors:

    http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html





    YAY!!!!!!
  • Reply 10 of 26
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    I think Ballmer needs to be reminded that he and his M$ monkeys are theives.
  • Reply 11 of 26
    mimacmimac Posts: 872member
    Twat.
  • Reply 12 of 26
    low-filow-fi Posts: 357member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by MiMac

    Twat.



    ROFWL



    What an idiot. MS can't compete, so we'll just slag it. Great strategy.
  • Reply 13 of 26
    the061the061 Posts: 25member
    As posted on the Guardian feedback:

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    Lets not talk about the iPod here, if we are going to talk about stolen copyright, why don't we discuss the fact that very few Windows users pay for the software they run their daily lives by?



    Which, in turn absolutely shafts those that Ballmer made a fool of himself saying were the most important people at one of his previous conferences...



    http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg



    Lets not forget that this is also the guy who slated Apple's campaign for the iMac which encouraged users to "Rip, Mix, Burn", because he misunderstood what "Rip" meant.



    The man is consistently silly and incredibly out of touch with what people want as is the continual trend with MS.

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    Twat is indeed an apt word.
  • Reply 14 of 26
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ipodandimac

    ballmer can go to hell.



    he cant find it, his windows based GPS keeps rebooting randomley.
  • Reply 15 of 26
    murkmurk Posts: 935member
    Finally an explanation of his statement, apparently MonkeyBoy had just had a stroke...



    Quote:

    "I don't know what I said exactly, but it was bad," said Ballmer, drawing out the last word - "baaaaaad"



    http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/...9124702,00.htm
  • Reply 16 of 26
    bungebunge Posts: 7,329member
    Sometimes it's good to sue. I wish someone would sue his balls off for slander.
  • Reply 17 of 26
    mattjohndrowmattjohndrow Posts: 1,618member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bunge

    Sometimes it's good to sue. I wish someone would sue his balls off for slander.



    hehe, steve mer





    get it?
  • Reply 18 of 26
    jarheadjarhead Posts: 33member
    I think that was a very inappropriate thing to say, and considering his position, he "should" have known better.



    Though it's not like he had much respect to lose. (Especially around here)
  • Reply 19 of 26
    danielctulldanielctull Posts: 586member
    Hi, I'm a recent convert (well I got a powerbook, but still use Windows desktop). Everywhere I have seen this mentioned, be it on PC or mac forums or news sites, Balmer has been slated for the things he has said. Too right too! No-one has got around the MP3 piracy problem, except for Sony's atrac3 player (which was my first "MP3" player, only for me to find it wasn't actually MP3 - grrr), but that itself has shown to be a bad business plan as Sony have said they'll be putting MP3 support in newer players...



    I love the circus entertainment that is Steve Balmer.
  • Reply 20 of 26
    chris cuillachris cuilla Posts: 4,825member
    Oh the irony. The CEO of a convicted felon (Microsoft) calling someone else a "thief" (if he really did).
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