[paul w]

(Courtesy of Ars Technica)

Teh Link: http://arstechnica.com/journals/appl...2005/9/23/1352

[rickey939]

What a fool.

[FulcrumPilot]

Zander and moto must in general hate Apple for putting their cROKR to shade with the release of nano in the same event! Lol!!!11

[Ratm]

When you can make CEOs swear and curse their competitors products it icing on the cake.

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by Ratm

When you can make CEOs swear and curse their customer's products it icing on the cake.

Fixed.

[ReggieX]

In case you missed it again.

[Randman]

Only a couple of other threads on it already.

[paul w]

Honestly Randman, where would we be without you?

If only the mods were as diligent as you.

[Randman]

If only ...

[scaught]

me (and most of my friends) agree with this man. none of us have 1000 songs on our ipods, we're more in the range of 5,000-10,000

[nredman]

now that is funny stuff

[{PHOTON}Mazz1020]

Originally Posted by scaught

me (and most of my friends) agree with this man. none of us have 1000 songs on our ipods, we're more in the range of 5,000-10,000

yea agreed. You might as well be carrying this around

[nredman]

Originally Posted by {PHOTON}Mazz1020

yea agreed. You might as well be carrying this around

"kind of" funny

[DeathToWindows]

What a moron.

Nano = brilliant engineering
ROKR = shitty-ass phone with bloody awful code running iTunes. idiots.

[scaught]

it seems like it should have been an easy slam dunk. coming off the popularity of the RAZR, the instant recognition of itunes and something that would be freely associated as an "ipod phone".

how could you **** that up? he found the way to do it, i guess. haha

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by DeathToWindows

Nano = brilliant engineering

Yeah, I wanted one until I started hearing about the screen scratch issues. Hopefully, that will get taken care of and then I'll buy one.

scaught: Yeah, I have 10,000 songs or so, but I certainly don't want to listen to all of them.

[ort888]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Moto...oke/1127763247

Motorola: 'Screw Nano' Comment a Joke
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
September 26, 2005, 3:34 PM
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.

"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.
The iTunes-capable ROKR has been met with a fairly cold reception since the start. Even on the day of its debut, Apple's Nano stole the show and Motorola was left on the sidelines as Steve Jobs wowed the crowds with a new iPod no thicker than a #2 pencil.
"During the Q&A session one questioner repeatedly and insistently asked what Zander thought of the Nano. Jokingly, Zander said he wasn't there to talk about the Nano - but to talk about the next big thing happening in the industry - the fusion of the phone and music. ROKR with iTunes was a good beginning, he said, and there's more to come," the statement continued.
Motorola says that the 1,000 song remark was simply a joke in response to part of the question that asked why the ROKR only held a maximum of 100 songs. It has been widely reported that Apple -- not Motorola -- imposed the restriction to keep the iTunes phone from affecting sales of the iPod.
Nonetheless, Motorola is working hard to clean up the public relations debacle, even though Zander himself has no problems with the new iPod. Sources tell BetaNews that Zander actually bought two Nanos following the product's launch.

[scaught]

Originally Posted by wallinbl

Yeah, I have 10,000 songs or so, but I certainly don't want to listen to all of them.

oh. i have a couple thousand songs on my ipod that i havent even listened to. another few thousand that i maybe want to listen to again. but theyre there, just in case.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by scaught

oh. i have a couple thousand songs on my ipod that i havent even listened to. another few thousand that i maybe want to listen to again. but theyre there, just in case.

When I first got it, I made a smart playlist called 'Unrated' and listened to it exclusively. As each song was played, I gave it a rating, which would bump the song off of that playlist. Eventually, every song had a rating. Songs rated below 3 stars don't go on the iPod anymore. It took me a while to do it, but I'm happy that I did it. I need to do it again because I've added a few gigs and they're not rated.

[The Godfather]

Maybe the Rokr stores music in an uncompressed form of AAC. Maybe it doesn't have the CPU to play compressed music.