I'd rather stick needles in my eyes
Sunday, January 10, 2010
than bing all the time.
I’ve been getting quite excited about the hopefully forthcoming Apple slate device for quite a while now, and frankly this weeks introduction of a HP tablet computer by monkey boy has done nothing to dampen my enthusiasm.
“Oh yeah, that looks cool! Wait, what, it runs Windows 7? Oh, Windows 7 with touch, oh, that’s okay then, I guess…”
Fail. For God’s sake, show me something new, something innovative, something that makes me go “Wow!”. Show me something that’s not running Windows….
I have to agree with Jeff Lamarche here, Microsoft needs to ditch Ballmer if they ever want to really get back in the game and not just try and wring their windows monopoly dry for every last penny.
Seriously, If I was watching him introduce an awesome robot dog (for example ;-) ) that brings you beers, mows the lawn, licks it’s own genitals and then chases away those pesky kids throwing a tennis ball against your garage, all I’d be able to think about was his sweaty pits and imagining him throwing chairs out of windows.
It’s obvious that Ballmer doesn’t love the technology just because it’s cool, but because it makes Microsoft money. And it shows.
Microsoft have never been the coolest of tech companies – Steve Jobs famously said that his main issue with them was their lack of taste, but at least Bill Gates had the right sort of geeky excitement and vision required. Ballmer clearly doesn’t get it.
Look, I’m happy to acknowledge that I’m not the hippest guy around either, but if I was going to pick someone to be in charge of the direction of any technology company, it’s gotta be someone that says something like “But wouldn’t it be cool if we could do XYZ as well”? And not “We bing all the time in my world”.
Ballmer may bing all the time in his world, but in my world I’d rather stick needles into my eyes.