“The highlight of my day had to be the ten or so minutes I spent with Steve Jobs in an exclusive interview on CNBC just after his speech,” Jim Goldman reports for CNBC.
“Don’t underestimate the power of the new iTunes movie rental service,” Goldman writes. “I asked Jobs whether this meant the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD was over, with Apple the big winner. Clearly, he said, Blu-ray won, but in the new world order of instant online movie rentals, in HD, no one will care about what format is where. Funny how fast tech can move.”
“Signing all the major studios is no small feat either. Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Paramount — they’ve all jumped on board iTunes. Substantially all of Hollywood. AppleTV, take two, has a real shot. The power of technology. The power of Apple and Steve Jobs,” Goldman writes.
“I told Jobs that I had sat down with Microsoft’s Robbie Bach last week at the Consumer Electronics Show. I mentioned that Bach was particularly optimistic about the new Zune, that it was now a worthy alternative to Apple’s iPod. Asked Jobs: ‘Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?'” Goldman writes.
Full article, with video of Goldman’s interview with Jobs (beyond flaky in Safari – for the life of them, CNBC still can’t seem to embed video properly – try Firefox instead), here.
It’s possible that Apple sold more iPods in the last 90 days than the total number of Zunes Microsoft will ever sell in the entire life of their derivative product line.
I don’t!!!
They still haven’t even introduced the zune in Canada. There’s outcry for the iphone here, but nobody’s even heard of the zune.
Yeah, apparently some guy named Robbie Bach owns one. 😀
All good things come to an end.
Good bye yawll!!!
When I actually sat and thought about it I thought I saw one at the gym the other day. Then I remembered it was just the commercial on the TV. So, nope, never seen one in the wild.
LMAO! Steve Jobs is that dude.
I wish I had someone like him to smack me in the face with reality all my life. Would’ve saved a lot of time.
Zune? I heard Toshiba makes them and MS passes them on as their own creation for competing with the iPod. You would think a company with hundreds of programmers and engineers who has access to billions of guaranteed revenue dollars to spend cannot come up with their own design for a player. Oh way, they introduced new colors. I heard RED is the big one yesterday. Laughable.
WTF is this new world order crap? I have had enough of the NWO shit from Bush and Co.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Suck it, Microsoft!
Great line
“Was he inebriated?”
That’s hilarious
what´s a zune?lol,no i´ve never see “big inovations“ on zunes and i´ve never see one in plastic.
He’s right. I can’t even remember seeing one out in the real world, except on the sales display at CompUSA. Those actual owners must be hiding them…
I’ve seen the Zune on sale in Canada in multiple locations for a long time now.
Asked Jobs: ‘Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?'”
BURN ! ! ! LMFAO ! ! !
I think i glimpsed a Zune once. Tacoma, i seem to remember. Brief sight, then—it was gone into the bustle of the mall. Noted it in my journal, indexed after my Bigfoot sighting. It seems that sightings should be push pinned on google earth–so rare– the sighter should get recognition.
Do my share of airplane hopping. Ride coach.
Never seen one.
Neither the Zune or iPhone are available here in Australia.
I’ve seen plenty of iPhones around, people talk about them and want one.
I’ve never seen a Zune and have never heard anyone talk about ut, except to say how bad it is.
DBL … I live in Ontario … never have seen a Zune … just checked both Future Shop and WalMart Canada websites … nothing shows up when Zune is searched for …
My brother-in-law, who is a moron, owns a Zune. He will not “succumb” to the status quo, so he chose to buy inferior crap that was defecated out of Steve Ballmer’s ass. My brother-in-law also LIKES Vista, despite the fact that it’s worst pile of feces ever unleashed to the computing public. He STILL questions me why I would buy a Mac, stating “you’re in the IT business – you should know better!” That’s right – I DO know better. I’m a Mac user. So I do know someone who owns a Zune – a fscking idiot at that.
I know someone who owns one. He’s the obese, sweaty CEO of some software company from Redmond, I can’t recall the name. I think his nickname is “Squirt”.
Zune Tang doesn’t even own one, trust me.
I heard somewhere that that Zune is the new word for Poop or Number 2 or something like that.
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I’m sure life in America is great at the moment with all these new services from Apple. But the rest of the world can only hear news about it and wonder, when will it happen in my country. Still, nice to know it is coming. Just like iTunesMS is now pretty much world wide. A lot of us are waiting for the iPhone (i know it’s coming) but how would downloading/renting/buying American TV or movies work in other countries. There would have to be some sort of delay wouldn’t there? But that would entice people to just go out and dload it someewhere else for free.
I heard that one was supposedly sighted over Roswell, New Mexico. But I don’t believe in that stuff.
Can somebody explain to me in plain english how to STOP those pop up Boy meets Girl silly spam/popup/facebookish crap without completely disabling java and kinda breaking my browser.
Who do i email thier link to so i can tell ’em to FU…..OFF!!!