Comments on: Mobile World Clusterf#^k — 2011 Edition

By: Dsquared2 Clothing

Dsquared2 Clothing — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:18:57 +0000

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By: KenC

KenC — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:08:08 +0000

Good read as always, but one note:

You wrote: “Like the Harvard football coach he once was”

And from Wikipedia: “At college, Ballmer managed the football team, ”

I think you misunderstand American college sports. In high school and college, being a manager is NOT like being Jose Mourinho at a football club. We call those people, the “coach”. A team manager in US college sports is more like being the towel or water boy or someone who collects the jock straps after the game. Typically, it is someone who wishes they could be a player on the team, but doesn’t have the athletic skill required. Being a team manager is as close as they can get, and interestingly enough, many teams award a varsity letter to the team managers. Usually, there are several. It does not surprise me at all that Ballmer was a team manager, as it seems he was Bill Gates’ personal team manager at Microsoft all these years.

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By: Walt French

Walt French — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:15:03 +0000

(Forgot the obligatory cheap shot that Microsoft is already not in control of its destiny, through a culture plus history that was of their own making.)

By: Walt French

Walt French — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:14:04 +0000

“With this in mind, why not acquire Nokia… it would give Microsoft more control over its own destiny.”

For that matter, why not spin out the phone division, which is now totally dependent on Nokia’s execution, and avoid the coming embarrassment? I know this idea is as American as yak butter tea, but sometimes, discretion IS the better part of valor, and a platform-agnostic Microsoft becomes one that can connect all its other crown jewels plus up-n-coming projects like the cloud to 100% of mobiles, not just 2%.