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Ballmer: Android Users Need To Be 'Computer Scientists'

ZDNet

October 19, 2011

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that people need to be 'computer scientists' to be able to use Android smartphones.

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Ballmer had this to say when comparing Windows Phone handsets to Android handsets:

"You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows phone and you do to use and Android phone . . . It is hard for me to be excited about the Android phones.

Then he tore into the iPhone.

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