L.A. Clippers owner and CEO Steve Ballmer may have stepped down from his post at Microsoft, but he’s still a share holder, and extremely loyal.
According to Reuters’ Mary Milliken and Eric Kelsey, Ballmer doesn’t want any Clippers employees using Apple products.
Ballmer left the board of Microsoft last month but is still the largest individual shareholder, with about 4 percent of the company worth $15.7 billion.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the Clippers will be a Microsoft organization. The son of a Ford Motor Co manager, he’s always been a company and product loyalist, banning his own family from using Apple’s iPhones.
“Most of the Clippers on are Windows, some of the players and coaches are not,” Ballmer said.
“And Doc kind of knows that’s a project. It’s one of the first things he said to me: ‘We are probably going to get rid of these iPads, aren’t we?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, we probably are.’ But I promised we would do it during the off season.”
I can understand being a loyal company man, but I wonder if the ban on Apple products extends to outside the job as well.
Will Ballmer ban players from using iPhones and iPads outside of the facility? Will there be a leave your iPhone or iPad in the car type rule?
