“At a leadership seminar in California Friday, Motorola CEO Ed Zander talked about his role in rebuilding the phone maker’s brand. But when answering a question from the audience about the iPod Nano, Zander apparently lost his cool saying, ‘Screw the Nano. What the hell does the Nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?’ Motorola, however, has fired back and claims IDG News Service, which first reported the outburst, is taking the comment completely out of context. Company officials say Zander was smiling and joking when he responded to the question, and he did praise Apple and its iPod,” Nate Mook reports for BetaNews. “‘Motorola has a great partnership with Apple. Unfortunately Ed Zander’s comments, made at a conference in California on Friday, were taken out of context,’ Motorola said in a statement.”
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Motorola. It never ends. You can take the clowns out of the circus, but you can’t take the circus out of the clowns. Next time, instead of making jokes, how ’bout making an iTunes mobile phone that people actually want to buy? What, no laughs from the Moto boardroom for that one? Hey, lighten up guys, we were just joking.
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