Motorola CEO criticizes iPod nano
updated 10:00 am EDT, Mon September 26, 2005
Motorola CEO on iPod nano
Motorola's CEO Ed Zander, who expects companies such as Apple and Dell to offer their own hybrid communication/computing devices, for Apple's iPod nano, which analysts believe took the spotlight from the company's launch of Motorola ROKR iTunes phone. "'Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?' Zander said. 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, he said."












sure
09/26, 10:13am reply
You know what hurt the launch of the ROKR? The ROKR itself.
And the there's this: "more advanced mobile phone networks"
Exactly. And I'm pretty sure that is outside of Apple's control/responsibility.
PS, I'd rather listen to 1000 songs than make a phone call.
groundwork
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What people want..
09/26, 10:13am reply
If he knew "what people wanted", he wouldn't have released the POS that is the ROKR. It kills me that these CEO's wanna trash a company that has innovated the entire computer and music industry for the good of not only itself but its competition.
kadavila
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iPod remarks
09/26, 10:13am reply
Boy, he sure seems to be a bad loser. Just becuase the Motorola phone has been slagged off in the press, its no reason to slate the Nano. I'm sure the next Motorola iTunes phone will be better once they learn from their mistakes.
coldfusion1970
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sour grapes
09/26, 10:16am reply
I take it that ROKR sales haven't been all that good, eh?
ogun
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Two words.
09/26, 10:17am reply
Sour grapes.
JohnnyFive
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wow...
09/26, 10:18am reply
After apple even took the time to develop iTunes for this piece of shite, and he spouts off like that...
time for the iPhone. or s**** it, just buy motorola and make it into a REAL device company.
technocoy
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Design- the difference
09/26, 10:19am reply
Hey Ed- You had a hot seller with your Razor phone- so why does the ROKR look like some dowdy grandma phone? It's all about design- if you want to be the cool company with the press- design a cool phone. I fell for the Samsung i500- even though it's palm/sprint integration sucks- just like your integration of iTunes with a phone- but- it gave me two things- a portable compact palm device- and a phone- you handed people a brick- apple handed people the nano- which is very s***. You didn't even have to get the iTunes integration right- you just had to have a s*** package.
Instead of spending all that money on s*** rockstars for your phone booth commercial- you should have figured out how to make the phone s***.
Crying about your ugly stepchild doesn't help either.
Better go back to the drawing board- asap.
David Esrati
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Who wants to listen to
09/26, 10:23am reply
100 songs on their ugly ROKR instead of 1,000 songs on a s*** black iPod nano?
I was on a plane last week and a dude had a black nano. EVERYONE wanted to touch it and handle it, just like the commercial!
And quite unlike the ROKR. Whip that out in a bar and no one will give a s***.
climacs
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All Phones Suck
09/26, 10:26am reply
The state of US Cellular handsets really sucks. This includes the RAZR and ROKR. Both are truely lamentable handsets--one has the gimick of being thin, the other has the gimick of playing music. Both are typically poor examples of what features a cellular handset should be in the year 2005. Where's my XHTML browser? Where's my J2ME MIDP 2.0? And for the love of GOD......where in the h*** is my 3G? What's with the slow menu response on Moto phones? What's with the random lockups? What's with iTap? WHY CAN'T ANYONE BUILD A GOOD HANDSET?
Kristoff
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I'm a saavy user and...
09/26, 10:40am reply
The first thing I realized was I don't want to listen to music on my cell phone and use up my battery so I can't use the phone when I need it. I'll listen to music on a seperate device and keep me phone on standby so it's ready when I need it!
In my opinion he's got it all backwards.
JohnM15141
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