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Ballmer Laughs at iPhone
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A two-minute clip of Steve Ballmer laughing at the $500 price of the newly announced iPhone and dismissing its lack of a keyboard. It captures a famously wrong early reaction from an industry executive.
Cited again and again as the classic example of incumbents dismissing a disruptive product.
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