Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated

jfruhlinger writes "On the day Android Ice Cream Sandwich was released, Steve Ballmer livened up the Web 2.0 conference by lobbing potshots at Google's mobile OS, calling it the choice of 'cheap' phones and claiming 'the biggest advantage we have over Android is that you don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone.'"

Re:Ballmer is a visionary

[firewrought]

It's wise of Microsoft to go after the high-price, low-IQ market.

But Apple's already filled that niche... :O

Re:In other words,

[clueless_penguin]

It will squirt phone calls...

Re:In other words,

[Baloroth]

It'll be a kin to the Zune, yeah.

Re:He does have some good points

[MrHanky]

See? Google takes everything from them.

Re:He does have some good points

[ConceptJunkie]

Just like Windows is still implementing features that Unix has had for decades. Microsoft has a time machine too, they just use it wrong.

Re:Out there

[Riceballsan]

It was easy update 98% of them. In microsoft's offices for their direct employees they just ran to their desks and swapped out the free phone they gave them, for a new free phone for their employees. They just couldn't track down the 2% of their phones that were bought by people intentionally.

Re:He does have some good points

[mkiwi]

And that Palm copied from Mac OS, which presumably copied it from Xerox?

Xerox copied from itself :P