Quote of the day by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: 'There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share' — a staggering misread of the future of consumer devices
The iPhone will go down in history as one of the most iconic technologies that any business has introduced to the world. But not everybody, including Microsoft's former CEO Steve Ballmer, thought it would be a hit.
Disrupting the market
Steve Jobs' iconic presentation revealing the iPhone in January 2007 had an air of magic around it, capturing the attention of plenty of commentators and technologists.
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But there were also plenty queuing up to label it a fad that would never take off. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO at the time, was among them.
In an interview with USA Today, a grinning Ballmer laid into the...
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