What do you get the CEO who has everything? If you were thinking of picking up a Kindle for Steve Ballmer for the holidays, you can think again. The Microsoft head is not a fan of e-book readers.
Asked what he thinks about such devices during the recording of a Netherlands TV show, Ballmer answered, “We have a device for reading. It’s the most popular device in the world. It’s the PC.” Oh, snap.
Ballmer added, “I would love to see companies like Amazon and others bring their books to the PC. Hopefully we can get that to happen with Barnes & Noble or Amazon or somebody. But no, we are not interested in e-readers ourselves.”
All of this ultimately brings into question the Courier prototype we saw, a couple of weeks back. The device is ostensibly a tablet, sure, but judging from the design, the ability to display e-books sure seems to be at the top of its to-do list.
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