Boyd Ostroff
June 18th, 2007, 09:45 AM
Interesting interview for the Wall Street Journal here (note this link may expire):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118193102977936957.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
Jobs said that Apple is in two businesses today (computers and music), is adding a third one (phones), and they have one "hobby."
The hobby is Apple TV. I call it a hobby because a lot of people have tried and failed to make that a business -- everybody from TiVo to Microsoft. It's a hard problem. It's a business that's hundreds of thousands of units a year, but it hasn't really crested to be millions of units per year. If we work on it and improve things over the next year, 18 months, we can crack that.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118193102977936957.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
Jobs said that Apple is in two businesses today (computers and music), is adding a third one (phones), and they have one "hobby."
The hobby is Apple TV. I call it a hobby because a lot of people have tried and failed to make that a business -- everybody from TiVo to Microsoft. It's a hard problem. It's a business that's hundreds of thousands of units a year, but it hasn't really crested to be millions of units per year. If we work on it and improve things over the next year, 18 months, we can crack that.