Microsoft vice president explains why he uses an iPhone

Yesterday we informed you of the slip of the vice president of operating systems at Microsoft, when posting a tweet on the microblogging social network with an iPhone on his last trip to Japan while on vacation. Many horny minds started making jokes about it in the wake of this Incident similar to what happened to Alicia Keys a few years ago when BlackBerry hired her to promote the benefits of the first touchscreen BlackBerry. Apparently Alicia Keys put her hand but did not use the phone, since she was tweeting with her usual device, an iPhone.

That is the problem when it comes to using the figure of the influencer, if you are really unfamiliar with the product you are trying to promote. But leaving this gaffe aside, Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's vice president who is in charge of the company's mobile section and the subject of controversy, has come to the fore to clarify the use of an iPhone instead of a device of the company:

It is very important for us to understand how products like the iPhone and Android-based devices […] represent a competition for Windows Phone […] During the year I have the opportunity to get to know these devices deeply. In order to understand the advantages and disadvantages of a complete ecosystem like Windows, Android, iOS, you have to live in them. You have to feel their strengths and weaknesses, be let down or charmed. And these sensations cannot be captured by playing with the device for a couple of days. You have to learn the user interface, upload photos, use applications, share files… everything.

If we go around on his Twitter account (@joebelfiore), we can check how some of the tweets He writes them from Windows Phone devices, others from the web version of Twitter, others from an Android device and also, as has already been demonstrated from an iPhone.

Joe is neither the only nor will he be the last senior character in a mobile device manufacturing company trying to learn other operating systems by using competing devices more often than usual. And if not, let's see how those functions that Apple has been adding to iOS in its latest versions have gotten there.