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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

Steve Jobs ain't worried about Microsoft's Zune

In a web-only interview with Steven Levy (who has written a book about the iPod, and wrote the recent Guardian Weekend article about whether the iPod's shuffle function really is random), Apple chief executive gives his reaction to the music-sharing function of the Zune:

I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable.


Read the full interview here.

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