Somebody buy this guy a clue
Category: Apple/Mac OS...
Posted Monday, September 26, 2005 at 06:17 PM [GMT-6]

Apparently still smarting over Apple's impending shift to Intel processors, Motorola CEO Ed Zander lashed out at a tiny inanimate object...

"Screw the nano," said Zander. "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.

Who listens to 1,000 songs? Well, apparently, only those people who don't have the space to listen to 10,000 songs. And at last count, there were only about a bazillion of them. Which equates to a great many more than will buy Zander's underwhelming Rokr.

Intel is starting to look better all the time.

Tip of the earbuds to Macworld

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"more than just play music," he says.

Well, yeah. If it could have your calendar and address book in it. Maybe a few games. Oh - and if you could keep notes as text files, that'd be good too.

When something like that comes out, the iPod's dead, man.

Posted by: Brian at September 26, 2005 08:57 PM

"Ed Zander" sounds like a made-up name, anyway.

Posted by: Eric at September 26, 2005 09:38 PM

Think of how the size of an average computer hard drive has grown over the last few years. By 2008 we will marvel at how we ever got along with a device that held only 1,000 songs.

Posted by: John Peter Smith at September 26, 2005 09:57 PM

We passed the point of astonishment for me when a hard drive with a storage capacity of one terabyte became available for home use, priced under a thousand dollars.

I have no idea how we'll back up that much data.

Posted by: Eric at September 27, 2005 08:40 AM
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