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Steve Ballmer

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Overview

Steven Anthony Ballmer is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and a co-founder of the Ballmer Group, a philanthropic investment company.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine...”
— Steve Ballmer laughs iPhone (January 2007)
“All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.”
— Ballmer sees Mac as a main competitor, iPhone as just buzz in AppleInsider (24 February 2009)
“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.”
— Ballmer: "The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" in Business Insider (21 October 2009)
“Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware-software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch.”
— Steve Ballmer says Microsoft plans to compete with Apple in every market in AppleInsider (10 July 2012)
“I think fully accepting that things are not the way they need to be, and going to work on those issues in a way that people understand you are serious about, as opposed to the tech industry generally appearing arrogant, I understand that.”
— Business Insider: "Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has advice for Facebook and Google: Don't make the mistake we did" (23 June 2018)
“Google’s not a real company. It's a house of cards.”
— 2005 court records as quoted by Kurt Eichenwald in Microsoft's Lost Decade Vanity Fair (August 2012)

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Overview

Steven Anthony Ballmer is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and a co-founder of the Ballmer Group, a philanthropic investment company.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine...”
— Steve Ballmer laughs iPhone (January 2007)
“All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.”
— Ballmer sees Mac as a main competitor, iPhone as just buzz in AppleInsider (24 February 2009)
“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.”
— Ballmer: "The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" in Business Insider (21 October 2009)
“Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware-software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch.”
— Steve Ballmer says Microsoft plans to compete with Apple in every market in AppleInsider (10 July 2012)
“I think fully accepting that things are not the way they need to be, and going to work on those issues in a way that people understand you are serious about, as opposed to the tech industry generally appearing arrogant, I understand that.”
— Business Insider: "Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has advice for Facebook and Google: Don't make the mistake we did" (23 June 2018)
“Google’s not a real company. It's a house of cards.”
— 2005 court records as quoted by Kurt Eichenwald in Microsoft's Lost Decade Vanity Fair (August 2012)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.