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Windows Phone… Does Steve Ballmer Really Just Want An iPhone? (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, HPQ, NOK, RIMM)

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By Jon C. Ogg Published
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) may have missed the smartphone move entirely.  Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have run away with the market.  Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) found out that its purchase of Palm Inc. was nothing more than a tax write-off.

Out at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas came word in a press release that the
first LTE Windows phones in the U.S. were coming exclusively to customers of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T).  Sound familiar with the pHone launch?

The release notes that the new 4G LTE Windows phones from HTC and from Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) are planned to arrive in the first half of 2012, showing that AT&T’s goal is to deliver the best mobile broadband experience in the industry.

There is just one problem… Many smartphone users have already dumped Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) for the iPhone or for a Droid phone.  It seems as if the client preference is not to switch to a Windows phone.

Is it fair to ask if Steve Ballmer really just wants an iPhone?  Or if the younger of Gates’ has managed to get an iPhone.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.

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