So, in this dream, er, nightmare I have, I walk into Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft office back in 2006 and say:
“Hi Steve, I gotta talk to you about our tablet strategy.”
“Sure, Scoble, what you thinking about?”
“Well, it sucks. It just isn’t working. Customers aren’t delighted. The market isn’t afire. Our employees are even bored with it.”
“So, what should we do?” he asks.
“We should ship a device that doesn’t run Office. Indeed, doesn’t run any Microsoft application. Doesn’t do multitasking. Doesn’t run Flash. Doesn’t have a camera. Can’t print. Can’t use a Microsoft Mouse or Keyboard, either. Oh, and just to be really revolutionary, we can’t put any of our normal packaging or stickers on the device or around it. Finally, we can’t sell it at Best Buy, but we have to build a new series of stores to distribute it in.”
“What the f*** are you smoking, Scoble? Get the f*** out of here before I call security. That’s the stupidest idea I’ve heard. Ever.”
Then I wake up and realize, no, I’m not Steve Jobs.
ROFL!
You were the tablet evangelist long before tablets were cool. In fact, they were quite uncool then
Can understand the nightmare
ha! ha! ha! he might give you the time of day… you are both becoming about as irrelevant as the other…
irrelevant enough to have jerks commenting on my blog. Harrumph.
Come on Robert. Expected much better from you than rehashing someone elses article. I have read something quiet similar earlier. Just cant remember where
It’s not the first time I’ve written this.
Microsoft is so irrelevant! Stop dreaming about Ballmer
Ha! Dream? Nightmare? Too close to reality. I would PAY to a fly on Ballmer’s wall. (Do they have flies there?)
How did 2006 get to be so long ago?
This is really the funniest thing I’ve read in ages.
Too funny! LMAO! ^.^
That is something Ballmer should read! lol. really funny! But it is kinda near to reality! lol
Verra funnay!
scoble-channelling the dream…on the way out the door, rattling off more usp’s in a desperate attempt to get Ballmer to reconsider…”but the thing can’t save files, it’ll have piss-poor wifi, a phased roll-out with a loathed cellular carrier, maybe like about a dozen or native apps out the gate, and a pricepoint that’ll stun some, but if successful, will cannibalize, if not gut the laptop market…c’mon SB, work with me here!”
Ha ha ha! Dream on dreamer… Sometimes I have the same dream that I’ve composed one of MJ’s track and I wake up with millions of copyright money