Apple Thoughts: Ballmer Digs At Apple. Again.

"Apple gained about one point, but now I think the tide has really turned back the other direction. The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment-same piece of hardware-paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be."

Coming from a guy who heads a company that made its fortune strongarming computer manufacturers into including their OS and nothing else ever, then making customers pay a few hundred bucks extra over the price of a machine for it, the statement about a logo being slapped on something and increasing its cost is pretty laughable. After all, how much did that "Microsoft Windows" sticker on your computer cost you?

Of course, that's Ballmer's typical stupidity there. Everyone knows there more to Apple than a logo, but it'll probably be a really breezy day in Hades before he acknowledges it. Hell, even Melinda Gates acknowledges that!