Microsoft, employees embarassed about iPhone use

portscan writes: There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank an file. The head of Microsoft's mobile division tried to explain it away as employees wanting "to better understand the competition," although few believe this. Nowhere does the article mention attempts by the company to understand why the iPhone is more attractive to much of Microsoft's tech-savvy workforce than the company's own products.

Ditto for every other industry

[Safety Cap]

I worked for a ________ but would often bring in the competitor's product, because their ________ were/was better than ours.

If senior management was too stupid to see that they had an opportunity to capture more market by supplying superior _________ so as to convince me (and surely, others) to switch back, then they were clearly out of touch.

If they got mad at me for indirectly pointing out the flaws in their Master Business Model and responded by retaliation, then they were clearly fossils who needed to b

I know what Apple is thinking right now.

[NotBornYesterday]

This would make an awesome theme for an ad campaign.