[hackuser]

> Ballmer was good at sales but horrible at running a company

From Wikipedia:

Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215 percent to $23 billion

May all companies suffer equally incompetent CEOs.

[Turing_Machine]

Over the same period Apple was going from $8 billion to $182 billion in revenue and Google was going from $3 billion to $66 billion in revenue.

[jliptzin]

You could say the pie was just getting a lot bigger. Why should one company be expected to eat it all?

[waterlesscloud]

Google is a completely unfair comparison as that was their prime growth stage.