RE: Steve Jobs is waiting
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Apr 02, 2005 06:54AM
I sure hope KINO fits into this scenario. As close as EDIG might have/could have/ would have been to the ipod scenario, EDIG may just factor in this go `round. What would that mean to our little company. See portalplayer for references.
Eventually, though, such a device could lead to a natural marriage with Hollywood, which is desperately trying to figure out how to cope with Internet piracy. One top movie studio executive sees Jobs`s public dismissal of portable video devices as a ``disinformation campaign`` to buy time until Apple has a product Jobs loves. That could be years away. Still, Apple`s QuickTime website is already Hollywood`s favorite for putting trailers online. Movie executives also have urged Jobs to come up with encryption software for video. Most telling, the studio exec says, is that Apple headhunters have been trying to raid his employees for Apple`s nascent digital-video team. And let`s not forget that while Jobs had few contacts with top music execs when he started putting together the iTunes store, his other day job is as CEO of Pixar.