It seems that Motorola’s European marketing director, Simon Thompson, has had enough of being asked about the iPhone. He is quoted as stropping, “We thought it looked very pretty and white. iPhone, iPhone, iPhone! I’m just bored of this darned question. Look, there will be a billion phones sold next year - on a good year, there will be 10 million iPhones.”
Although he misremembered the iPhone’s colour, Thompson’s point, to a degree, is fair. Motorola sells phones in all market segments right across the globe; Apple is attacking just one, and starting only in the States. However, given the ropey design of some of Motorola’s past phone interfaces, we hope that its engineers are scratching their heads a little right now.
Meanwhile, a Harvard Business School professor has decided that Apple has - thus far - received $400m (£200m) free advertising for the iPhone. Which is a nice big number, but God knows how he figured it out (calculator, probably).
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