It’s not really about social networking. It’s not wide open.

Every consumer technology company — manufacturers, service providers, installers, and retailers — has a role to play in delivering end-to-end digital experiences. Product-service bundles, global media and technology standards, and nonprofit certification groups that implement...

They did a great job in designing the iPod Nano. The face is the right size for the fingers and buttons are spaced apart well. I suppose you could break it if you accidentally sat...

They did a great job in designing it. The face is the right size for the fingers and the buttons are spaced well. I suppose you could break it if you accidentally sat on it...

The irony of this format war is that it comes at the tail end of the century-long era of physical media.

It is more than just a hum in the background, … There are real decisions being made and money being spent, and Microsoft is starting to see, at the margin, an impact.

There’s been a kind of disconnect between content creators and distributors and technology in the past. It would be advantageous for film and TV producers to bring digital content to consumers rather than hold back...

There is a big debate in the industry on centralized vs. different boxes around the house. I fall on the side of a lot of different boxes.

It’s a huge departure. It’s a big deal. But it’s tied to their business model: Apple is a hardware company.

While a high-definition video format does bring benefits over today’s standard-definition discs, in movies as in music consumers are moving beyond shiny discs.

This is a basic rewrite of the client file system, and a significant improvement,

Consumers don’t really want to carry around more devices than they have to. Everyone has a mobile phone. To get music onto the phone is a big deal for the music industry. Why does Apple...

The idea that there are consumers who don’t need a PC for e-mail, [but] they [do] need a PC for entertainment is real. People are doing that. Those applications run well on media center PCs.

They established best practices for double-checking software for potential security flaws.

The software industry once had the keys to the kingdom. But buyers are becoming more sophisticated. The software industry should share in the risk instead of running and gunning.

In order for this to have any value, someone has to link it into a business application, so they’ve got a big delivery challenge. They’ve got to convince developers to build front ends, convince their...

They have to be really careful how they open the access to make it more valuable,

The digital-music-player war is heating up.

They have a great hardware product, but they’ve been shut off from businesses and consumers who want to run PC programs, and now they have the software that will allow that.

If you’re a virus writer, there’s no glory in attacking Linux on the desktop.

It’s not going to be a big bang launch, but a trickle launch.

This organization is a simple one because the alignment here of all the product groups save one is around markets: around people who write checks, the buyers,

It’s a jewel. It’s beautiful, … It’s just a very elegant device. You want to hold it.

impregnable lineup of partners.

It’s a little bit like having an electronic dog.

Music labels would much rather have variable price, so they can charge more for hits and perhaps less for older tracks. Apple likes the $0.99 price because it is simple, uniform, not too high to...

Every consumer technology company manufacturers, service providers, installers, and retailers has a role to play in delivering end-to-end digital experiences. Product-service bundles, global media and technology standards, and non-profit certification groups that implement and test...

It’s about as easy as a consumer application gets.

Apple is fairly consistent in terms of its cycle of early adopters followed by other loyal Mac users.

Microsoft has changed the way information is stored, so that any application can use WinFS. It essentially turns the hard drive into a database. That makes it much easier to find and back up data.

Right now, everything is in place for the competition to really begin. In the past, manufacturers were tinkering with standards and technology, but now that they have that all figured out, the race has begun.

High-definition plus today’s DVD equals good enough, … It has been and continues to be so ugly that consumers are going to stay away.

Because they’ll be able to lock up the volume discounts, they can undercut everyone’s prices over the long haul. It puts price ahead of profit.

It’s all very complicated, which is just crazy. Unless you’re a music lover, maybe you don’t bother with it. It’s hard to find your way around.

[Where does Oracle sit on this scale?] It’s maturing, … It’s being forced to mature.

To really boost legal music download services, the RIAA has to understand how to master the channel.

As products roll off the line, it’ll be interesting to see what gets adopted.

When operating systems began integrating features that were in other systems, they were well on the road to becoming undifferentiated from each other. With widgets, they see an opportunity to win users by being unique...

The cost of computers is still a problem along with access to Internet service, … If you don’t see marketing efforts toward your group and someone to set up the computer and internet service, you...

Apple is not looking at the chip for differentiation. It’s counting on its hardware and software for that. If anything, it’s taking the line of thinking that the chip inside makes little difference to the...

This is the first time that media companies and media executives are part of the show.

There is a segment of the consumer population that wants the convenience of transferring and printing images directly from the camera, without the cable, and it eventually will gain popularity. But first they have to...

Ultimately, it’s the consumer that’s going to judge whether a new machine is faster than an older one. The chip inside doesn’t matter to the buyer as much as the computing experience.

Apple will keep doing what it’s doing, and most likely that means they hope Windows users will make the switch on their own. But they’re not going to tear down what they’ve built to try...

See a problem; find a solution; then tell the company that this is the way it’s going to be — get on board or else.

This organizational structure makes it easier to hold executives accountable. The old organizational structure did not.

They know the strength of their differentiation. They’re not about to give that up because some guys want to run OS X on other machines.

Apple is a hardware company – they build software to sell the hardware. The question really is, Why not support the installation of Windows on their computers?

Apple is very aware of what chips need to go in which machines and when. That’s part of the reason they made the switch to Intel.