Roger McNamee: Judgment Day
July 29, 2009 at 20:39 PM EDT
“ You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone, ” Elevation Partners (which owns a huge portion of Palm) co-founder Roger McNamee told Bloomberg in March. “ Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later. ” Yes, that would be today. So how did McNamee's claim turn out? Well, let's put it this way: If there was a foot-in-the-mouth award given every year, no one else would need to apply this year. Hell, it might take the prize for the whole decade. It's a quote of Ballmer-level proportions .