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Gizmodo: Ballmer: "The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" [Blockquote]
The iPhone Blog: CEOh-SNAP: Ballmer Says the Internet Wasn’t Designed for the iPhone
Switched: Best of the Rest: Extend Your Laptop's Life, Is Googling Always Wise?
| RT @hblodget Ballmer: "The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" http://bit.ly/68XBq 10/22/2009 |
| Que Internet no fue diseñado para la Iphone dice Ballmer... Hummmm.. | http://bit.ly/i8vNR 10/22/2009 |
| Ballmer actually said something that I agree with, amazing! http://bit.ly/i8vNR 10/22/2009 |
Ballmer: "The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" [Blockquote]
Gizmodo —
... proclaims that the Internet was not designed for a device that wasn't even a glimmer in Steve Jobs' eye when the Internet came to be. Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got 75,000 applications - they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone. Only trouble is that I don't know how those fart apps are making the Internet look decent. [AP via Business Insider]
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CEOh-SNAP: Ballmer Says the Internet Wasn’t Designed for the iPhone
The iPhone Blog —
... the iPhone has 85,000 apps is because it’s a modern, highly usable mobile device that developers want to develop for.
(For the record, what became the modern Web was designed on NeXT, the precursor to Apple’s OS X, the mobile version of which powers the iPhone, with computing power and screen real-estate we’re guessing might just be competitive with desktop power a couple decades old. B’okay Steve?)
[AP via Business Insider via Gizmodo]
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Best of the Rest: Extend Your Laptop's Life, Is Googling Always Wise?
Switched —
... Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently told the AP, "Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone." You can hear Mac fans worldwide building themselves into a rage. [From: BusinessInsider] ...
Robert Scoble: 85,000 reasons why the iPhone won't be disrupted
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Steve Ballmer's recent assertion about the iPhone, "That's why they've got 75,000 applications -- they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone." ...
Shareholders ask Ballmer about Apple
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Instead of telling people what they like, sanitizing language, insisting that the only reason the iPhone has 75,000 apps available is to make it usable on the Internet and ...



