Microsoft says Apple "Not going to catch up" in phone market
Updated: Wednesday April 02 2008
Microsoft has said that its new Windows Mobile platform will be one you'll want to use for life before slamming Apple's mobile phone dominance plans.
Speaking to Pocket-lint at the launch of Windows Mobile 6.1 in London, Scott Rockfeld, group product manager at Microsoft's mobile communications business, when questioned how Apple and Google poses a threat to Microsoft's Mobile OS said:
"We are not at all worried. We think we've got the one mobile platform you'll use for the rest of your life."
Rockfeld also confirmed that Microsoft was still waiting to see what the Open Handset Alliance do with the launch of the Android platform before acting:
"As for Google and Android we are still waiting for what they are going to do", Rockfeld said.
However Rockfeld was quick to dash Apple's hopes of dominating the smartphone market: "They are not going to catch up", he said before reminding us that Microsoft shifted more licences of its mobile platform than RIM and Apple did handsets put together last year.
The comments come as the company announces a new version of its mobile phone operating system Windows Mobile 6.1.
Source: SkyLabels: Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, Windows Mobile |
