Steve Ballmer predicts $100 smartphones in 1-2 years
The CEO of Microsoft, in an interview at 3GSM, claimed that they're hoping to "get smartphones at consumer style prices," but that he thinks "it will take a year or two before we get to $100 type offerings (of Windows Mobile devices). I maybe be wrong, but not by much." Steve Ballmer also stated that they're seeing the smartphone as eventually holding a "very large share of the total market" and while Symbian is currently dominating the sector, and Microsoft isn't planning on Nokia as a customer anytime soon or necessarily planning price cuts on their own OS, Microsoft would "do everything that is needed to invest in this market and expand in this market." What more can you ask for than that?
