10.16.2006

iPod and Zune

"The girl's got up and left"-Steve Jobs

While explaining how Microsoft's upcoming Zune Player is not going to kill Apple in iPod sales, Steve Jobs had mentioned that the new feature that will allow Zune users to send another person with a Zune Player a song (which they can then listen to 3 times) has such a slow transfer rate that by the time the song sends.
Microsoft has touted Zune, a portable media player due to be launched in the United States in time for the holiday shopping season, as a potential threat to the dominant iPod because of its ability to share music wirelessly.
"It takes forever," Jobs told Newsweek in an interview posted on the magazine's Web site on Sunday. "By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left."

Jobs was equally unconcerned about the prospect of the iPod losing its cool factor as it becomes increasingly ubiquitous.

"That's like saying you don't want to kiss your lover's lips because everyone has lips. It doesn't make any sense," said Jobs.