Archive for January, 2006

YOU WANT A PIECE OF THIS?

January 16, 2006

“Unlike the computer, or a magazine or television, the phone is a piece of you.”

Visa executive Jon Raj, on making sure advertisements are everywhere you want to be, too, The New York TImes, 16 January 2006

A VASTER WASTELAND

January 16, 2006

“The TV, as you and I have grown up with it, is not going to be the TV that the next generation of kids grows up with.”

Intel executive Anand Chandrasekher, on pushing chips into the boob tube, News.com, 12 January 2006

AND YOU WONDER WHY STEVE SCREENS YOUR CALLS, SCOTT?

January 12, 2006

“Your iPod is like your home answering machine. It’s a temporary thing.”

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, claiming he doesn’t have time to listen to his iPod, News.com, 12 January 2006

DAIRY TO BE DIFFERENT

January 11, 2006

“It scrolls like butter.”

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, spreading himself thin in the search for a metaphor to describe his company’s new photo software, Ars Technica, 10 January 2006

SOUR APPLES

January 11, 2006

“Now they’re taking advantage of the Intel chip. The users don’t really care what’s inside the machine in terms of the processor.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, pretending not to care that Steve Jobs blatantly copied him with the new Intel Mac, Engadget, 9 January 2006