[stevesnj]

Slashdot | Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release"

[MacosNerd]

He's right, they're the 800 hundred pound gorilla in the market. That doesn't mean they have the best solution *cough* iPhone *cough* but because the're so many different smart phones with windows mobile on it, they have the majority of the market share AFAIK

[Laminar]

Well, here's 2005:


and 2007 from Wikipedia:

Symbian OS from Symbian Ltd. (72.4% Market Share)
Linux operating system (13.3% Market Share)
Windows Mobile from Microsoft (6.1% Market Share)
RIM BlackBerry operating system (5.3% Market Share)
Palm OS developed by PalmSource (now a subsidiary of ACCESS). (1.6% Market Share)
OS X from Apple Inc. (1.3% Market Share)

[Kevin]

According to MS they own EVERY market. Invented EVERYTHING and they can prove it!

Just don't ask them to. Steve has his RDF. Ballmer and Gates have their FUD.

[Cold Warrior]

What's bad is that MS is self-delusional. They believe their own BS. Not healthy for a company that needs serious innovation in their new and old products.

[SirCastor]

I think the major problem with Ballmer's line of thinking is that he only thinks about business. He's stuck in a mid-90's-business-is-the-only-market paradigm.
He only thinks of smart-phones as a business device. He thinks consumer phone users aren't a big (or even valid) part of the smart phone market.
So from his perspective, yeah, Android isn't a big deal and to him the iPhone isn't a threat.
Furthermore, as others have said, Microsoft has a skewed view of the current computer world. They seem to be under the impression that they are invincible, I think Vista has shown that isn't the case, their arrogance will be their downfall
(I know that sounds cheesy, but I believe it's true. The same will happen to Apple if it doesn't stay on top of it's game.

[imitchellg5]

You can tell by the way that Microsoft makes their own revolutionary mobile phone that they clearly own the Mobile Phone World.