Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Jay Samit on NYT

Gen posts on Jay Samit’s NYT profile. He gives no comment — here’s my two cents :)

I wonder how many top managers actually own an iPod; i wonder if Samit has one of his own. I get the impression not.

I think Jobs is right. Removable media won’t pick up in the states; it never did with the MD. Americans like things big, redundant, supersized, and oversized. Houses, cars, foods, Costco, Walmart, 5.1 home theater systems. The iPod isn’t just a novel audio playing device — it changes the way people treat their music collection. 45 hours of music? pshaw. I walk around with 7 days of music in my back pocket. Hell, if I upgraded, I could walk around with 1/2 a *months* worth of music, non-stop.

The winner in this race will be whoever can help me organize those 10,000 songs through a 2″ squared lcd screen (or whatever fits in my back pocket). Even cooler if I didn’t have to look at a screen – this is audio we’re navigating after all.