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500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.
Steve Ballmer
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Steve Ballmer
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 24
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