Steve Jobs Has No Problem Telling You What He Thinks

[kdarling]

I would've said it the other way around. Steve Jobs learned that MOT couldn't be trusted to deliver a phone that wasn't complete arse, iPod software added or no.

Yep, Motorola didn't do so well, but Apple helped make sure the ROKR was crippled.

For one thing, Apple forced Motorola to limit it to 100 songs, so that it could not compete with the iPod.

"Your phone is the dumbest ********* idea I have ever heard."

What cuss word has that many letters? I MUST learn it!

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[ftaok]

I would've said it the other way around. Steve Jobs learned that MOT couldn't be trusted to deliver a phone that wasn't complete arse, iPod software added or no. That was in 2005, and it planted the seeds for the iPhone, which MOT only wishes they had developed.

Back in 2005, dumbphones didn't have decent mp3 playback software. iTunes on the ROKR wasn't that bad. The phone itself wasn't great, though. The 2nd (and I think last) iTunes phone was much better. This was the SLVR. The phone was sleek and it could play iTMS songs and sync'd via iTunes.

Shame that Apple capped the song capacity to 100, in order to protect iPod sales.

 

[aarond12]

Back in 2005, dumbphones didn't have decent mp3 playback software.

I don't know about that... my Sony Ericsson phones (K750, W810i, and two others that I forget) all had excellent MP3 and even MP4/AAC playback capabilities. Sony was trying to make their phones into Walkman units by including NICE headphones and decent software.

There was no limit to the number of songs you could store... except that the memory was limited to 2 or 4GB.

 

[CFreymarc]

Either way he's behaving like an ******* towards someone he hardly knows who was just trying to be friendly.

Steve can spot passive aggressive types a mile away. This was a typical engagement. Sometimes the only thing Steve can be guilty of is telling the truth to those that can't confront it.

 

[SactoGuy18]

The problem with that is that your cable or satellite provider is paying ESPN a pretty hefty monthly fee -- starting at $4.08 per connected household for the main ESPN channel alone (source) -- for the rights to carry ESPN on basic cable. That's ESPN's cash cow. It's also happens to be a major point of contention between ESPN and the cable/satellite providers; they would like to see ESPN moved to a sports tier so people who wanted ESPN would pay for it, and those who don't, wouldn't. (Theoretically, subscribers would either get a lower monthly subscription fee or, more likely, the cable/satellite providers would make more money.)

I think you're referring to recent program by ESPN to show the actual ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU network to Time Warner, Brighthouse Networks, and Verizon FIOS subscribers using an iOS or Android device.

What I'm referring to is essentially turning the ESPN.com webpage plus a few other online-specific products into an iOS app that uses iOS features, just like what CNN, Fox News and BBC News for their iOS apps. Since that is quite different than showing the network itself, no cable system will complain.

 

[koruki]

Earlier this year, two shareholder advisory firms questioned Jobs' position as director at Disney, noting that he missed more than 75 percent of Disney board meetings for three out of the past four years.

Misses 75% of board meetings but still contributes more in a single sentence rant than those who attend 100% of the meetings. Sums it up.