Microsoft's suave CEO Steve Ballmer thinks Apple's iPhone will fail in the next five years, he said, speaking at a dinner at the Churchill Club.
You got to give him credit for optimism - Ballmer also thinks Nokia and Research In Motion will feel the crunch in the next five years, saying all three companies will suffer because they design their own proprietary hardware which they tie to their software. He reckons Windows Mobile is the ring to rule them all, or something (is that from the wrong movie?)
Ballmer thinks the same strategy that helped Microsoft become the leader on the desktop will let it win
