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Steve Jobs Snipes at Amazon, Praises Ice Cream
- e1ven 17y agoThis is interesting because we see Jobs' answers to the two big questions which I saw coming out of the event- Why not Camera on the iPod touch, and why no stills on the nano. The answer comes down to price on the iPod touch- They really really wanted to get under $199, and didn't feel they could do that with a Camera. On the Nano, they couldn't fit the lens needed for the autofocus. . You put a camcorder on the iPod Nano. Why not on the iPod Touch? A. Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine. Because a lot of the games were free on the store. Customers started to tell us, “You don’t know what you’ve got here — it’s a great game machine, with the multitouch screen, the accelerometer, and so on.” We started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is it’s the lowest-cost way to the App Store, and that’s the big draw. So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to $199. We don’t need to add new stuff — we need to get the price down where everyone can afford it. Q. How come the Nano can now record video, but can’t take stills? A. The sensors for doing video are fairly thin. The sensors for doing a still camera, at much higher pixel resolution — and we’d really like to have autofocus — they are just way too thick to ever fit inside the Nano.
- allenbrunson 17y agoi wouldn't say he "snipes" at amazon. he's just making a point that he thinks there's isn't much of a market for single-purpose book-viewing devices, and using amazon as an example.
- iterationx 17y agolinus once made the point that once a device has a processor, people will want to turn it into a full computer.