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Re: Ballmer: Microsoft Wants Back the Marketshare Apple is Taking

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____/ owl on Saturday 21 Nov 2009 08:28 : \____

> nessuno <nessuno7491@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> <Quote>
>> Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting put CEO Steve Ballmer in the
>> hot seat answering questions about marketshare the company is losing
>> to Apple....One share holder said that his college age children all
>> use Macs, and that Apple's ad campaign makes Microsoft look like a
>> "buffoon," according to the Seattle Times....
>> 
>> Shareholders hit on the iPhone's popularity, too, by asking just how
>> Microsoft plans to compete with Apple's combination iPod and
>> smartphone as well as the Google Android platform. Mr. Ballmer
>> apparently skipped past the iPhone to talk about Android instead....
>> 
>> Microsoft's recent Windows 7 launch could help the company regain some
>> customer trust if the operating system
>> isn't burdened with the same issues Windows Vista was plagued with.
>> It's also an opportunity for Apple to draw more switchers to Mac OS X,
>> and that's what company's recent ad campaigns are targeting....
>> </Quote>
>> 
>> http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ballmer_microsoft_wants_back_the_marketshare_apple_is_taking/
> 
> It would be nice if Apple would have an ad campaign that was positive
> for a change, instead of always bashing Microsoft.  Microsoft, to their
> credit, responds to all this teabagging with positive ads, when they
> *could* literally devaste Apple with counter attacks.  Imagine a billion
> dollar ad budget and a room full of rent-a-trolls and what hilarity they
> could wreak on national tv at Apple's expense.  We can only wish...

For GNU/Linux users, Apple's tactics are actually better. Had they just advertised 
Macs, it would not be of use to us.

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