Ballmer on the Smartphone Race: “It Doesn’t Matter What the Critics Say”

In this segment of my exclusive interview series with Microsoft bossSteve Ballmer , I institute up the sore subject ofWindows Mobile 6.5 . After defending it , he abduce another product that did well but abide mounting criticism : Nokia smartphones .

As you’re able to see in the video , Ballmer acknowledges thatWindows Mobile6.5 is receiving negative reviews , but I never get him to actually acknowledge that the political platform still postulate work . He allege , “ reviews by , ” he ’s glad with what Windows Phones ( course 6.5 ) can do now .

And face with rival of iPhone , BlackBerry and others , he contend it ’s currently “ kind of a Equus caballus race . ” The only clear leader , market - part Isaac Mayer Wise , is Nokia , and they ’re lose earth . When I said that Nokia was another developer presently lambasted by reviewers , Ballmer replied :

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At the remnant of the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , it does n’t really matter what the critic say , it matters what the customer say .

Perhaps given the top executive of ad ( still mighty , even if it ’s on the decline ) , there may still be a elbow room for a product to get positive sales event despite negative reviews . But the internet has changed that landscape painting , and the lines between critic and customer blur more every mean solar day . We all share cognition so as to make better choice . So who , in the closing , is this customer , who is so dissimilar from the critic ? Not anyone who reads Gizmodo , that ’s for sure .

Stay tuned for more exciting Ballmer moments ( and facial locution ) over the next day , and then the full full-length interview video on Friday . Video byMike Short

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