It was reported that even after the 1st million iPhone has been sold in the first week-end since its release on July 11, the line-up for iPhone 3G is still crazy.
People around the U.S are lining up for hours. 4 to 5 hours in New York city. 3 hours in Seattle. Check this out:
I would be extremely interested to "hear" what Mr. Ballmer would say after this. Another boring "pooh pooh" against the iPhone once again Mr Balm?? >:) *little devilistic smile*
Microsoft really need to be humble and get back innovating once more. It start becoming a dinosaur these days.
As common people and any "student in history" knows: no matter how big and powerful dinosaur once are, once they become irrelevant (and start failing to adapt) to the emerging circumstances that surrounds them, dinosaur -- no matter how big and powerful they ONCE are -- totally vanish from the face of the earth, and start becoming another silent "artifact" in the long journey of the great world history.
If Microsoft intends to sustain and survive even for the next decade, it shall NOT forever be "dinosauric" starting today.
Stop being "pooh pooh"-ed to anything "not invented at Microsoft" perhaps is a good start. In the past, Microsoft didn't invent DOS, Windows, Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, PDA, Internet, nor Browser, anyway. Infact, Microsoft greatest strength is when they start embracing something, extending it and making it happen to the greater market. When they start to embrace (and extend) that's when they start to dominate.
This "humble, embrace, extend" strategy is something that the arrogant Mr. Ballmer seem to always "forgot". He's so busy "pooh-pooh"-ing other great products, too oftenly do his "crazy ugly monkey dance", and too oftenly resonating his deepest arrogance (and over-proud feeling) about Microsoft. Something that increasingly become the most "annoying" side of this complicated persona.
ps:
iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will go on sale in France on July 17.
“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
- (Yet -- as of now -- we still don't know where Zune today is in the world radar screen). Microsoft really need to get back to the "root" of their own unique "innovation" approach, which they were once really good at, in the past.
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