getting the votes and it looks like possibly he would get them, george. as always, as in life, anything you need to know just and by the way, i ve got a question that you want answered, you can tweet me @richardquest. my digital device is many. and you can tweet me @richardquest. i ll do my best to answer you. anna stewart, he s extraordinaire in terms of the vote numbers today. yes, i ve had my calculator out and trying to see if boris johnson can get the magic number of 320 votes. ben, you may have heard him, he said he might have got it done? it s shifted but i will say it s too close to call. but here is what s changed
listen, you got to do something to keep warm out here. play along with me. one, two, three. whoo! that was the most pathetic cheer we re cold! we re cold. it s going to be the second coldest. three, two, one! what can i say, ana, you want to know how many layers i ve got on? i can only imagine. there are at least five here, there are about four or five inhere. and my bits are still freezing. so tweet me @richardquest. tweet me @richardquest if yao g got a good recipe for keeps your bits warm. you re talking about like fingers and toes, right? reporter: absolutely. you re using words from england that we just don t usually use in the u.s., richard. it is so cold, you ve got the
the global economy heading toward ten. these are the issues. trump, brexit, trade, protectionism. if you want to join our char chart, @richardquest. the reality is, they are not sailing on majestically irrelevant to what is happening, but they are having a fundamental introspection of what they need to do. richard, they always knew there could be big globalization. benefits to consumers to buy cheaper goods in the united states. low wage workers in developing mark markets, but mostly be to shareholders and investors. i argue they knew that and they just never followed through on
talking on a plane? that s a good question. i wouldn t like to sit next to myself either. not saying i don t want to sit next to you. there was a quiz @richardquest. 95% say no. everybody wasn t connectivity, e-mails, very few people want telephony to make calls. the mat ter have you fed the dog? the pilot says we re over boise, idaho. i couldn t see it myself. nobody really wants that. i totally agree with that. i absolutely agree with that. but maybe somebody out there, we might find a viewer who really wants to use their phone. let us know @richardquest. you fly a lot, though. i find air travel now so difficult. first of all i feel for flight attendants for people who don t know how to fly. the flight attendants will have to become the referees between warring passengers. it s going to be exhausting for them. their job is tough enough.
that was really done two or three years ago when they partnered in 2011. what microsoft is now doing is doubling down, more than doubling down, ten-timing down on what it s already invested in it. it s put $300 million in. it s going for $7 billion. this is a big play to say they can do it. well, we will see if they can. and the core question for viewers is if i give you a choice, very simple, there you are. take your pick. you can have any one of them. if i was going to give you any one, the iphone, the samsung, the blackberry, the luminary, the nokia, which would you take? i m torn. i like the blackberry, because i like the keyboard. i m an old fogey. @richardquest the twitter name. richard, no. i m not going to give you anything. but which would you have if you could have one of them. please tweet richard and let him know. we ll let you know what you vote. thanks.