Apparently Ballmer isn’t a sports fan because if he was, he’d know how unabashedly stupid it is to give your opponents bulletin board material…

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.

Sorry stupid, but first of all your software isn’t in even half of the phones being sold. More than 70% of smartphones? Sure, if you want to really break down numbers to the most granular way they look good for you.

I love Windows Mobile, but let’s not kid ourselves here. Apple is cruising for major market share here. Apple getting 2% or 3% is a silly number based on absolutely nothing. Of course, like I said, Ballmer is proving not to be so bright and loves making quotable statements that mean nothing, so this is nothing new.

Bill, fire the village idiot and bring respectability back to Microsoft. PLEASE.

(PS: Even in smartphones, ole MS is only at around 5%. Now, I readily admit that most people who buy Symbian aren’t doing so to get Symbian, they just happen to have it, but that being said, 5% isn’t exactly gigantic considering your criticism of Apple for 3%.)