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Ed knows best.
Ed Zander, Motorola CEO, doesn't like the iPod Nano:
"Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?" Zander said. People are going to want devices that do more than just play music, something that can be seen in many other countries with more advanced mobile phone networks and savvy users, he said.Lots of people apparently. Solutions Research Group found that on average, iPod users have 504 songs in their libraries [PDF]. Of course this is coming from the company whose phone is arbitrarily limited to 100 songs, but hey, Mr. Zander knows what you want to do much better than you do anyway.
I wonder how he would feel if Apple released their own phone? Let's recall that iPod customers pay full price for their products, rather than the heavily discounted prices for cell phones, many of which are often free when customers sign up for a plan.
The Motorola cell phones are pretty slick, but it looks like all handset manufacturers are riding a wave of increasing mobile phone sales. Motorola is doing a good job improving their fortunes though, and Mr. Zander certainly deserves some of the credit for that. I'm not sure that the phone going to be the be-all and end-all platform of the future, especially given the current nickel and dime mentality of North America operators.
Update: There's more at digg.