Electronics & Computers Deals here!Steve Jobs praises a retiring Bill Gates
While most of Steve Jobs' energy on Tuesday was spent touting the new MacBook Air, the Apple chief did take some time to praise longtime rival Bill Gates, who plans to stop working full-time at Microsoft at the end of June.
"Bill's retiring from Microsoft is a big deal," Jobs told the New York Times. "It's a significant event, and I think he should be honored for the contributions he's made."
I'm guessing Jobs probably won't issue a Bill Gates edition iPod, but the two have been making nice in public, including a rare joint appearance at last year's D: All Things Digital conference.
In the same interview, Jobs also notes that Apple went through 100 design prototypes before coming up with the final MacBook Air design and suggested that Amazon may have trouble selling the Kindle--and not because of the product's design.
"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore," he said. "Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore."
I guess that shoots to heck my prediction that Apple would soon add e-books to the iTunes Store.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
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Perhaps, this should be included in the PODCAST.
No one reads!? LOL - How do you respond to a goofy comment like that...
The bigger question is: Will Jobs ever have anything approaching an original thought?
No Battery, No DVD Drive, No Stereo Speakers, NO WAY!
He should've introduced it as the World's First Disposable Laptop.
-Google founders put loads of money into environmentally sound projects. (Which is great, because apparently the web can save the world*)
- What the heck has Steve Jobs ever done besides wear slick sweaters?
*http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=142504&
The Air is massively overprice
It is radically underpowered
It is wildly overhyped
It is missing many key features
The screen is way too small
It must be an Apple product.
And Microsoft still can't see Apple in it's rear view mirror. The score is 95% to 3%. As long as Apple keeps coming up with products as stupid as this one things will never change.
significant supply of people willing to cut down those who
produce in an attempt to get their name in the look at me I am
bright too column.
We have a PC industry in large part because of Bill Gates. We
have clever computing design in large part because of Steve
Jobs. Both have stubbed their toes in the processes of pushing
the personal computing industry to its current heights.
Where in the history of personal computing do we find most of
the folks we see knocking these leaders?
As we learned early in our family If you can't think of something
positive to say, keep your mouth shut until you do.
Jim
The Apple way is already there: "Audiobooks" is prominently featured in the iTunes Store.
In any case, you can get over 20,000 books from the Gutenberg Project. (and over 100k from affiliates) [but you probably know this already]
Don't feel bad, none of my predictions came to be.
From The Basement Of The Science Building
to my comment here.
Fair enough?
- If you repeat something enough, people believe it
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by iBuzz
January 18, 2008 8:26 AM PST
- OK Mr. Jobs, let me see if I got this straight:
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See all 40 Comments >>Digital music rentals/subscriptions == bad
Digital movie rentals == good
Digital book sales == bad
2-year mobile phone contract/subscription lock-in == good
Thanks Mr. Jobs. Without you telling me what I should want, I
would've been completely lost.