Jobs Unfazed by Zune

twofish writes "In an interview at Newsweek marking the approaching 5th anniversary of the launch of the iPod, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seems unconcerned by Microsoft's wannabe iPod killer Zune. Earphone sharing will prove a more potent force for social networking than the iPod rival's wireless song-sharing feature, he reckons. '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,' he says in the article. '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.'"

In other news ...

[Bewbewbew]

Teenage girls all over America issue restraining orders against Steve Jobs, related to his attempts to "share his earphones" with them.

The master has spoken...

[__aaclcg7560]

'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.'

Dating advice for using the iPod?! Let's see Bill Gates top that with the Zune!

The sky is falling!

[RAMMS+EIN]

Wait, what? Steve Jobs is talking about _girls_? And he works at _Apple_? /me ducks

Huh?

[iworm]

You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear.

Why not just keep both earbuds where they are, enjoy the music, and still stick it in her ear? Or am I misunderstanding something here...?

Re:The master has spoken...

[RAMMS+EIN]

``Let's see Bill Gates top that with the Zune!''

Nah, I think I'd rather not watch that.

Is Steve Jobs a pimp or what

[theaddkid.com]

This just screams pimp to me. "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.'" Steve "huggy bear"Jobs

Re:In other news ...

[clickclickdrone]

A stranger trying to shove his ear-waxy headphones into me is a total turn off, by the way. And who's to say they don't have a heroin-tipped needle in them or something worse (like AIDS).

What a scary world you live in!
I guess if headphones being inserted are a turn off, any other penetration is right off the menu.

Re:In other news ...

[truthsearch]

AIDS transmission via earwax? Please get off the net, Senator Frist.

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you're missing an R near the end of your first sentence. That's okay, though, as the sentence parses correctly when spoken aloud.

Re:Incredible Speaker

[Doctor Memory]

I was wondering if it was a subtle reference to "Zima", another allegedly genre-busting product that made an ineffective splash and has all but faded into the woodwork.

Think inside the box, Jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

What if the woman has a Zune and I have such a raging iPod at that moment?

The dangers of icky ear buds

[dpbsmith]

If I were Ballmer, I would seek out an opportunity to comment on the doubtless many medical studies that have shown that ear wax, mites, bacteria, Avian flu virus, cooties, parasites, AIDS, those icky crayfish-like ear thingies from "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan," the gay gene, and terrist nucular WMD materials remain on ear bud surfaces, no matter how clean they seem to be.

Re:Keep looking

[failure-man]

What if I put my tesla coil in a red wagon and wheeled it down hip-20-something street on friday night, asking girls if I could borrow electricity to make toast?
 
What if I wore a Jack Skellington costume?

Subtext?

[Doug Neal]

So what he's really saying is essentially "you're much more likely to get laid with an iPod than a Zune"...

Re:In other news ...

[Rob T Firefly]

I guess if headphones being inserted are a turn off, any other penetration is right off the menu.

In my earholes, yes.

Re:In other news ...

[bitt3n]

AIDS transmission via earwax? Please get off the net, Senator Frist.

you do him an injustice. this is a serious form of the disease, called hearing AIDS.

(sorry)

Re:Incredible Speaker

[d0n quix0te]

>Most people would never put someone's elses earbud into their own ear, I know I would never do so.

Dude, no wonder you don't get sex! It involves inserting.... naughty bits into other naughty bits.... And don't even get me started on foreplay.... and other forms of sexual entertainment... I am glad you are not averse putting your penis in your hand. ;-)

Re:In other news ...

[Bastard of Subhumani]

Can it be spread by aural sex?

Consider the Zune in that case

[SuperKendall]

Teenage girls all over America issue restraining orders against Steve Jobs, related to his attempts to "share his earphones" with them.

Meanwhile teenage girls are buying handguns and taking the law into thier own hands after hearing Balmer is coming to "Squirt" them with his "Brown Zune".

Re:Incredibly inappropriate:

[Pope]

I think you'll be asking for Cytheria more than Jenna.

Re:Incredible Speaker

[Gilmoure]

I'm still waiting for my iNewton. That'll be sweet.

Re:Incredible Speaker

[Gilmoure]

The kind of women you can take to White Castle and then sleep with usually are best not seen by the light of the rising son. Only makes sense to beat feet while the eeevil Mr. Yellowface is away.

Re:Huh?

[haggie]

She'll hear you coming...

Re:Uploading not Sharing

[gEvil (beta)]

It's like people are incapable of reading anything with any degree of subtlety anymore... very strange.

What are you getting at here?

Re:Incredible Speaker

[punkr0x]

He's just a perfectionist and doesn't want to throw in the latest bells and whistles until he feels it is ready for your everyday user to consume.
 
So that's why iTunes 7 works so flawlessly!

Re:Incredibly inappropriate:

[MotorMachineMercenar]

"I think you'll be asking for Cytheria more than Jenna."

I don't know what is more disturbing: that I knew what /exactly/ the parent referred to, or that enough people knew to mod it up to 5.

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