Steve Ballmer Reacts to the iPhone

what was your first reaction when you saw that $500 fully subsidized with a plan and it doesn't appeal to business customers now it may sell very well or not right now we're selling millions apple is selling 0 phones a year ever in the marketplace let's see how the competition goes

Steve Ballmer sits in a Microsoft-branded interview setting and confidently dismisses the iPhone, claiming that its $500 price and lack of business appeal will prevent it from competing. The joke comes from the dramatic irony that Apple went on to sell millions of iPhones while Ballmer’s prediction became famously wrong, making the clip useful as a reaction to confident but incorrect takes. EN: Steve Ballmer sits in a Microsoft-branded interview setting and confidently dismisses the iPhone, claiming that its $500 price and lack of business appeal will prevent it from competing. The joke comes from the dramatic irony that Apple went on to sell millions of iPhones while Ballmer’s prediction became famously wrong, making the clip useful as a reaction to confident but incorrect takes.

• @gentoomemes / 2798 2023-03-05