Steve Ballmer. Microsoft CEO. A quote machine. He initially brushed off Android as a mobile platform with no business model and pitted it as just version one. Now comes a quote from him saying that Android is now a viable competitor…for PC’s.
“We’re very focused in on both Apple as a competitor and Linux as a competitor. I think the dynamic with Linux is changing somewhat. I assume we’re going to see Android-based, Linux-based laptops in addition to phones. We’ll see Google more as a competitor in the desktop operating system than we ever have before. The seams between what’s a phone operating system and a PC operating system will change and so we have ramped the investment in the client operating system.”
We poke fun at Ballmer a lot but he’s no dummy. Android is incredibly versatile and if “netbooks” are the burgeoning market–a free and capable OS like Android has the potential to dominate. So yeah, Android is a legitimate competitor against Windows and PC’s, we just can’t wait until he realizes Android is a competitor against Windows Mobile as well.
[via modmygphone]