Steve Jobs Q&A
p2pnet.net News:- Newsweek believes Steve Jobs’ views on Zune, the universe, and everything are important enough for an official press statement.
Jobs isn’t worried, “iPod might lose its cache because its [sic] too popular,” Newsweek has him stating in an interview. “That’s like saying you don’t want to kiss your lover’s lips because everyone has lips. It doesn’t make any sense.”
The occasion was the fifth anniversary of Apple’s iPod, and the fact Jobs “cooperated” with Steven Levy, a Newsweek editor, on a book called, “The Perfect Thing”.
The Q&A, Good for the Soul, is now available, “exclusively online at Newsweek.com” and, “We don’t strive to appear cool,” it has Jobs stating.. “We just try to make the best products we can. And if they are cool, well, that’s great.”
Was it, “fair to the customer that the songs they buy from Apple will only work on iTunes and the iPod?”
“Well, they knew that all along,” declares Jobs dismissively,
And , “you were saying, ‘When our customers demand it, that’s when we’ll consider interoperability’,” Levy says to Jobs.
The latter’s response?
“Nobody’s ever demanded it.”
Was he fidgeting and blushing when he said this? Only Levy knows
Not only but also, “People know up front that when they buy music from the iTunes music store it plays on iPods, and so we’re not trying to hide anything there.”
Yes. Well …..
And on Zune, Microsoft says the device, “is all about building communities,” so, “Are you worried?
“In a word,” says Jobs, “No. I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable.”
Ironically, Good for the Soul is featured on MSNBC.
Also See:
press statement – Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, October , 2006
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