- Reuters
- Wednesday January 9 2008
FRANKFURT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. software group Microsoft
will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple
Inc's iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with
Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
"No, we won't do that. In the so-called smart phone business
we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile
programme," Gates was quoted as saying in the interview
published on Wednesday.
"We have partnerships with a lot of device manufacturers
from Samsung to Motorola and this variety brings us
significantly more than if we would make our own mobile phone,"
he added.
Apple's iPhone, which also plays music and lets users browse
the internet, has been a big hit.
(Reporting by Michael Shields; editing by Rory Channing)
