That just about sums them up

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:12:48 +0100

Don't ask me how but I ended up, through a long chain of associations, watching Steve Balmers wonderfully predictive reaction to the iphone:

In it he scoffs at the iPhone then starts talking about Windows Mobile and the Motorola Q-phone and says:

"You can get err a Motorola Q phone now for 99 dollars. It's a very capable machine. It'll do music. It'll do internet. It'll do email. It'll do instant messaging. So I kind of look at that and I say 'Well. I like our strategy. I like it a lot.'"

Those words "capable", "machine", "it'll do" strike a note of entrenched mediocrity to me. Compare that to the excited and playful way Steve Jobs talks about Apple products and their design. I can't ever imagine teh Steve saying "Good enough."

It's not hard to understand why I love Apple and feel only bleuch when I think of Microsoft.

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That just about sums them up