"Screw the nano" says Motorola

Screw the Motorola ROKR! How about that?

This just in: the ROKR was apparently "just a joke." It wasn't? Damn.

This just in: Zander's comments were apparently "just a joke." Go figure. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/5519/

The Galvins need to buy back their family's company {Motorola] and send Zander to Microsoft. Let's use Microsoft as a repository for the clueless; they already have a good stockpile!

Just for the sake of statistics let's tally the number of MP3's TAUW readers have in their libraries. I heard 3000+ a few comments up, i have 6000+ myself. Guess how much i would dig a phone that holds 1.6% of my library...

What do you say to something like this?! Zander, lay off the glue, buddy. If you're not already embarassed by your comments, you are as dumb as you sound.

Motorola's phones have never impressed me -- and their interfaces are awful. I wish the US had the powerphones available overseas, but if it did, I wouldn't buy one from Motorola. Maybe if Motorola had spent the time to make a real, well designed musicphone instead of stuffing music into a crappy shell, their product might have been received better.

So after millions of iPods have been sold, the CEO of Motorola questions the viability of the product? He also questions the carriers who sell his product ("other countries with more advanced mobile phone networks") and the US customers who are not buying his phones (other countries with more...savvy users"). I get it! Your product does not suck, your competition, the carriers and your customers suck.

Screw the ROKR. "He goes on to claim savvy users across the world are going to want a phone with more advanced features" -- darnit man, I want to ADVANCE my features, but not necessarily MORE features, just advance the standard ones. I'd love a beautiful, elegant, simple phone that works well and has great standard features. I barely use a percentage of the junk on those phones -- no wonder he's so defensive. The cell industry has spent more time beefing up their product with more bloat every year than listening to most of their clients. People hate the contracts, the expense... Ed Zander spends more time defending his product than delivering. ...and I for one have 3000+ songs on my ipod. Considering the iPod Mini is the win all player, I guess he's not as hip as, well, we guessed.