Due to compatibility issues and malware Android has, in the words of Microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer ‘a little wild’. The ecosystem of Apple would, according to him, correct strictly regulated and are too expensive. Windows Phone would be the best of both worlds’ offer.
Ballmer made his statements during an interview with LinkedIn founder and investor Reid Hoffman at the Churchill Club event, writes CNet. Ballmer called Android “a little wild”, and referred to the malware, and the fragmentation that it would be by the different Android versions on devices from Amazon,Google and Samsung, and other manufacturers.
“On the other hand, Apples system heavily regulated and seems the price is quite high,” said Ballmer further. “How do you get quality but you pay not the top prize with a less controlled ecosystem?”, he asks himself, after which he declares that the best of both worlds would be available for Microsoft. His company would have on customers create a look for an alternative.
Ballmer admits Windows Phone yet but just looking at it: “Anyone who thinks that hardwareinnovatie with handhelds on its end is crazy.” Microsoft would be well aware that the software is not directly a hit could be: “The challenge is to have 10 percent of the smartphone to pack, then 15 percent and then 20 percent. We are not going from one day to the other 60 percent deal with it.” According to Gartner owned a Windows Phone in the third quarter of 2012, only 2.4 percent of the smartphone market. In the interview, praised Ballmer also just departed Windows chief Steven Sinofsky, but he gave no further reasons for his departure.
