Gates : Google not a threat in phone software

Posted Jul 30th 2007 9:20PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: Developer, News, Microsoft

Think Google has a shot at creating popular software for mobile phones? Bill Gates doesn't. Gates does his best to politely trash Google's business prowess in this Reuters article.

Gates is quotes as saying, "They've introduced about 30 different products; they have one profit-making product. So you're now making a prediction without ever seeing the software that they're going to have the world's best phone and it's going to be free?"

Microsoft currently holds about 10 percent of the mobile phone market.

Tags: Bill Gates, BillGates, google, microsoft, mobile phone, MobilePhone

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-30-2007 @ 11:12PM

dorian said...

omg... i want more google mobile apps for my palm tx!

7-31-2007 @ 10:24AM

kingkool68 said...

Microsoft also has a dozen products but only two profit making gigs; Windows and Office

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