Good videos, with context.
Steve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone

Steve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone

Sander Duivestein
0 HN recommenders · discussed 2018–2023
Open YouTube ↗

About this video

A one-minute clip of Steve Ballmer laughing at the original iPhone and dismissing its price and appeal.

Why it appears in the archive

HN uses it as a joke or cautionary reference when a company or analyst confidently dismisses a product that later succeeds.

AI-generated summary and labels from the source dataset; verify important details against the video. Source & credits.

From the Hacker News discussion

onetimemanytime · 2018-07 · joke

Major congrats to them and to the late Jobs. I'd be in the Ballmer category... [VIDEO] Making telcos "subsidize" it, must be right there with the "pay just the minimum on your credit card" business wise. Brilliant.

Read original comment ↗
rcMgD2BwE72F · 2018-11 · joke

> Is there another choice? Not yet, I guess. But the $35K Model 3 should be delivered mid 2019 and the first used sales should be available soon after. I doubt Tesla will decrease its prices (they're slowly securing the industry's profits, à la Apple). I'd expect most people to spend more on EV than did on ICE. I wonder if this legitimate question (when people wonder how much to spend on an EV vs cheap ICE) will be later compared to the famous 2007 Ballmer moment: [VIDEO] :)

Read original comment ↗
simonebrunozzi · 2019-11 · joke

Among many things: “500$? Fully subsidized? With the plan? That is the most expensive phone in the world” [0] [0]: [VIDEO]

Read original comment ↗
mwerty · 2020-01 · joke

Steve Ballmer points out iphone's "disadvantages": [VIDEO] The bet is that the advantages outweigh the negatives.

Read original comment ↗
jve · 2023-06 · joke

To everyone complaining about the price, let's add Steve Ballmer to the studio, he will give some weight to your words: [VIDEO]

Read original comment ↗
fossuser · 2020-10 · critical

Yeah, while Google immediately scrapped their blackberry like phone project to quickly accelerate an iPhone-ish design for the first android phone, Ballmer made MSFT's probably largest strategic mistake: [VIDEO] I don't buy the 'things were in motion' while he was there, I think if they were it was in spite of his direction, not because of it.

Read original comment ↗