Steve Ballmer’s take on Android, Windows Phones and Bing
Here are some of the excerpts from an interview with MS CEO, Steve Ballmer at Search Marketing Expo West:
About integration of Bing with Windows Mobile:
"whatever happens will be something that happens in conjunction with, at least in the general case, and certainly here in the U.S., with the operator. My guess is we’re not going to get a huge amount of operator support for Windows Phones who don’t want Bing. I mean, in some senses it’s an essential part of the definition of the Windows Phone, and if you have an operator who would want to do something with another search player, they’ll probably do it with a non-Windows Phone."
About license fee being not removed for Windows Phone 7:
“Stop and take it outside of the specific Android-Windows phone debates. How does Apple make money on phones, basically with a licensing fee on their own phones. It’s a positive gross margin on the phone. If you offer a phone of high value, there is money to be made.”
About Flash:
“Well, we continue to push forward with Silverlight, we’re on about 40-50 percent of all of the PCs in the world. We support Flash, Windows Phone 7 for a lot of schedule-based reasons, we feel a lot of schedule pressure, let’s just say, on Windows Phone 7. The first version this Christmas will not support Flash, again, not a religious issue. We’ve got to make sure we’re doing all the right work with Adobe on performance, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That’s all super-important.”
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