Assclown Number 5: Ed Zander, Motorola CEO/Chairman and amateur juggler, 10 May 2007
How do they deal with us?
Giz: Yes, how would they deal with you now that Motorola is almost dead, Ed?
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Assclown Number 4: John C. Dvorak, tech columnist and professional assclown at large, 28 March 2007
Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone… What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures… Otherwise I’d advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you’ll see.
Giz: What we don’t like to see is you, John, getting into these bags of hurt all by yourself.
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Assclown Number 2: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO and zoologist, 30 April 2007
There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.
Giz: Re-reading that must hurt. If you are Steve Ballmer.
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