“Until this dispute, Real had always enjoyed a productive working relationship with Hollywood.”
RealNetworks acting CEO Bob Kimball, on losing a legal fight over blatantly illegal DVD-copying software, TechFlash, 3 March 2010
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MORE LIKE APPLES AND DELLS
“This comparison with Google is like trying to compare apples and oranges.”
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, admitting there’s no comparison between her faded, 15-year-old Internet portal and its vastly more successful neighbor to the north, CNBC, 2 March 2010
TELL THAT TO XEROX PARC
“We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on how the best inventions aren’t copied from someone else, unless they happen to be the Mac’s graphical user interface, the computer mouse, the MP3 player, or the tablet PC, Apple.com, 2 March 2010
TAKE TWO TABLETS AND CALL ME WHEN YOU HAVE A BUSINESS MODEL
“We feel confident enough that consumers will want our content in this new format that we are committing the resources necessary to be there. How large a revenue stream digitized content represents is an answer we hope to learn through this process.”
Condé Nast CEO Charles Townsend, on taking an existential approach to tablet-computer media, New York Times, 28 February 2010
THE BRAND CALLED WHEEE!
“I think about our brand and how our brand comes across to consumers as being this really fun and delightful and friendly brand, I think about what other big company has that same brand identity? And Google is at the top of that.”
Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato, on selling his online photo-editing startup to Google for a bunch of lava lamps and free food, TechFlash, 1 March 2010
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