Motorola CEO Whines "Screw the Nano"
from the world's-tiniest-violin dept
Sound like somebody's upset that they got upstaged: "Screw the nano" is Motorola CEO Ed Zander's verdict on the latest iPod, announced at the same time as Motorola's rather disappointing iTunes phone. "What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs? People are going to want devices that do more than just play music, something that can be seen in many other countries with more advanced mobile phone networks and savvy users," he said in an interview. While he may be right that in many countries people are eating up mobile phones that can play music, they're only interested when the phones in question don't suck. Make a device that excels neither as a phone nor as a music player, and nobody's going to care. Perhaps some of Zander's vitriol should be aimed at his company's engineers for coming up with such an underwhelming product, rather than at Apple for creating something people actually like.
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This is exactly the kind of ignorant statement I would expect some technophobic grandpa to say, not an executive at a "forward thinking" electronics company.
My answers to his stupid questions are:
1) The nano allows a very portable means of allowing me to listen to music where ever I want. Often times I DO NOT WANT my phone to be with me while I am in that place.
2) *I* listen to 1000 songs. Actually, my current collection of MP3's in 10,000 song range.
I plan to buy a nano because it's smaller, and because it will force me to more actively move music on and off the device. I found with my "big" ipod, that I have so much music on it already, that I get lazy about adding new stuff...
Went to 3 stores this afternoon to buy a 4gb nano, and they were all sold out. Only one of the stores had a couple 2gb nanos left.
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It's all about business.
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Nobody uses a Swiss Army knife
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What is this American epidemic of crap leaders? Is this what comes of issuing MBAs?
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motorola said "screw nano" is just a joke
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