The Jobs Report

The Internet and the blog world pay the same sort of attention to Steve Jobs as you see paid in the msm to Alan Greenspan. Will he be at the next Apple Computer event? What under-the-table deals has he been making? So for His Steveness to actually sit down with reporters and take questions has created something of a shock of information. Jobs said that music labels who want to charge more than 99 cents for songs on iTunes are "greedy," which impressed this blogger — "I like him more and more" — and that he didn't believe the hype about the future of computers being in a convergence with home entertainment. "It does explain why Apple's product line follows the 'Do one thing and do it well' strategy," this blogger writes. "For the most part, I can agree with his statement. Somewhat." That's all well and good, but what concerns us are Jobs' remarks about the elusive Video iPod: "Jobs said that the market isn’t yet right for personal video devices. 'You can already download movies on the iTunes Music Store, and some albums offer video as an incentive to buy the music,' said Jobs. 'We also offer video podcasts, but will people buy a video device just to watch this video? So far they haven’t. No one has been successful with that yet.'" So the days of carrying Stewie Griffin in our pocket still seem far off...

Posted by Philip Ewing at September 22, 2005 11:18 AM

Category: The Gadget Scene