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Apple Computer's newest MP3 player, the iPod nano, is receiving rave reviews and analysts believe the device will solidify Apple's dominance in the competitive MP3 player market for at least another year. However, not everyone praises the device -- Motorola CEO Ed Zander had some harsh words for the nano in a recent interview. more

[boomw]

Who listens to 1000 songs? Ah hahahahahahahahaha!
The people who won't buy your phone.
Now, a RAZR ROKR edition would sell. This guy needs to get his head out of his $%#
B.

[MacGod]

A think a more-appropriate question is "who listens to only 100 songs?". Startlingly candid comments for a big-company CEO. Not often you get a sound bite that juicy!

[jaxofon]

I think it's funny how the lousy design of the Rokr phone gave Steve Jobs problems during his demonstration of it.

[Johnny_Epic]

Zander sounds like an 8 year-old. Real mature.

[OM_user]

Wow, what an intelligent comment from him! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I guess he's annoyed that his Motorola SUKR phone isn't selling so well. Boo hoo!

[snapjack]

Wow, this guy is a CEO?! Wonder where he's been the past few years. HELLO - everyone wants to listen to music on an iPod, be it a Nano or not. He's as jealous as all the other CEOs out there who have to compete with Jobs. Incredibly stupid thing to say.

[scotts13]

I had to check to make sure this wasn't an April Fools joke issued at the wrong time. What responsible officer of ANY company makes a statement like this in public? As an IBM rep once told me - "Be careful of bridges and matches. You never know who your next partner (or employer) will be."

[Moof_in_Charge]

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"Screw the nano," said Zander. "What the hell does the nano do?

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Well, this is what you get when you get a CEO that used to sell sneakers for a living in charge of an electronics company.

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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 user

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Is it me or did he just insult the American customers?
It would be fun to see Apple's response to Zander... I think they should decline to comment.
/forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif <---- Zander after eating his Nike sneakers at the next board meeting!

[b_baggins]

Two words:
Sour grapes.
Their iTunes phone sucks and they know it.

[kwill]

Does he mean 1000 is too many or too little? He must mean for former since the Rokr holds 10 percent of the Nano capacity. As to the "screw the Nano" comment, could he be referring to the rotation of the Clickwheel?

[Netizen_Kane]

"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,"
So why isn't he getting on Verizon or Cingular's case about upgrading their crappy networks? Besides, maybe some people just like devices that do one function and do it well, rather than his mythical factotum which does nothing well. But maybe he's thinking, "Who needs an 8 megapixel camera with a 5x optical zoom and a decent flash when we give you VGA resolution with digital zoom in most of our phones?" And where's the Motorola device with a full QWERTY keyboard for email and IM, a la Blackberry or other smart phones? More than just play music but less than full Internet access?
Motorola should change its slogan. "Intelligence everywhere" should have "except at the top" appended to it.

[jedi228]

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Zander sounds like an 8 year-old.

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If Zander is an 8 year-old, then Steven Jobs is a 5 year-old. Jobs is famous for his temper tantrums and the Apple team and its lawyers have to work overtime to keep his antics out of the news.
Why is it that big businesses often have idiot tyrants at the helm?
The Nano is a fantastic device for which the engineers should be credited. Jobs contribution is simply to cuss, throw tantrums and threaten the engineers in order to motivate them to stay late at the office.
The tantrum strategy is effective and sometimes produces successful products, but it is certainly not a virtue to admire.

[hayesk]

The difference is Steve Jobs' tantrums resulted in the iPod Nano. Zander's tantrums resulted in the ROKR.