Also, because he makes such a fun target, Steve Ballmer said the following earlier this year:

"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."

Here's the link for that quote:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-04-29-ballmer-ceo-forum-usat_N.htm

it's important to emphasize that iPhone beat out Windows Mobile sales for a SINGLE quarter.. not overall .. not over the span of a single year- but for a single quarter. Given the hype and the amount of advertising dollars we've seen for the iPhone, Apple BETTER have sold that much.

Oh yes.. let's also consider one thing - how many ads do you normally see for Windows Mobile? Not really any (at most online ads). How many for the iPhone? A whole lot.. heck.. I could whistle the darn tune for you. Put in the marketing advertising dollars and you'll get good results HOPEFULLY. Kudos for Apple for pushing hard here but let's not forget what the scope of the sales is all about. For the year -it's still highly doubtful that the iPhone will beat out Windows Mobile.

Why? There's more selection. There are more devices.. more OPTIONS. Ironically enough - the iPhone is still too closed no matter what anyone has to say.

Most people speak Spanish and worship Mohammed.

Nobody worships Mohammad, dude. "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his prophet."

You can't talk shit about Steve Ballmer, he's a "person of size"!

No no, boingboing, they worship the fuck out of Mohammed and speak Spanish while doing it.

Steve Ballmer was talking about all phones. Your percentage is for "smartphones", whatever the fuck that is. The problem with my iPhone is every time Ann Coulter shows up on the screen, I use it to wipe my ass.

Yeah. That's right. I wanted to slam Ann Coulter. That's why I wrote this comment.

aren't you supposed to be on vacation?

But without cs, we'd all be bored! He's just doing his civic duty!

I should call this time sick time because for two days I've been lying on my back trying to convince my muscular structure to give up all its waste product properly and take in the right amount of fresh blood and oxygen. It's starting to break, but for now I'm still on the couch. This is the perfect medium to deal with that tedious situation. I've also been downloading and watching 30 Rock, Robot chicken (xmas special!), and Tim and Eric Awesome Show (great job!).

If only there were some seating device that could help me with this back situation...

Oh yeah, and based on that article and MacGregor's logic, I should actually buy a Blackberry. The iPhone can continue to be used as toilet paper.

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Move Necesito bano por favor? Es mui cognito y portollenas par aqui. The before one amigo?

great job!

i gave up some waste product reading your description

you just have that effect on me

WTH.. how did we get from iPhone sales to toilet paper? CS.. if you can use the iPhone as toilet paper successfully.. well.. god bless!

it's better than wiping your ass with Dean Tanella. Not that I would know!