Rob Glaser Quotes (27 Quotes)

Our collaboration with Home is another crucial step forward in enabling the Internet as the next mass medium for both consumers and content providers.

We'll have some video download services if you just want to get a movie trailer and watch it, but in terms of streaming content, we'll mostly be doing audio - the stuff we did back in '95 with the PC. So in the everything-old-is-new-again world, we're seeing familiar trends in the mobile market.

I think all this stuff, ultimately, is going to blow over, ... Once the record companies make their collections available in a reasonable way, from an economic standpoint, consumers don't have to choose between not downloading or downloading illegally.

Consumers should say, 'Apple, we won't buy your music until you make your DRM interoperable,'

My sense is, it's actually kind of an interesting dynamic. Microsoft, for reasons that I don't understand - but I welcome - seems to be trying to cram a proprietary Microsoft-only agenda down the throat of the entire consumer electronics industry, and the entire mobile industry, and the entire media industry.

We do a lot of business with Microsoft, we talk to them all the time, we do advance disclosures and all that, but there's no specific contract negotiation right now,

We are not immune to the current market environment for Internet-related spending, and we've made adjustments to our near-term growth expectations. At the same time, we remain highly confident in our fundamentals, leadership position, and long-term prospects.

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

As we're rolling out to the stakeholders who make the decisions as to how to deploy the networks, ... their response has been hugely positive.

My view is that the opportunities in front of us are very good, and we'll continue to more than hold our own on the PC.

We have some hard problems to solve The applications are quite complex, the delivery systems can be difficult to master, and the applications that were once the domain of high-end users are now crossing over to the mass market. But I have no doubts that we and others (content delivery companies) will be up to the task.

With the carriers now moving to 2.5G and 3G, products such as streaming radio, on-demand music and on-demand radio streaming will become more attractive to users,

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

Today we're closing one chapter and opening a new one in our relationship with Microsoft.

This fascination with the convergence of media and technology -- that's something that's compelled me for probably 20 years,

In terms of market dynamics, just look at the broadband trend and the growth in the wide range of devices. I wouldn't say we're going into an era where PCs are irrelevant, and I certainly wouldn't say that to PC Magazine, but I think we're going into an era where the PC is just one of a number of important devices.

I think I enjoy working for a company of a size big enough to get things done but that's still nimble.

While 2001 was a challenging year, we believe we are now entering a period of renewed growth.

There's the growth of bandwidth, and that is a fundamentally positive trend for us, because it allows us to deliver better and better experiences.

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives.

Our two growth businesses have been music and games so if you could do acquisitions that accelerate that I wouldn't rule it out.

Our third quarter results demonstrated the ongoing strength of our business model. We also delivered on the growth strategies that are enabling us to expand our industry leadership position, including advancements focused on accelerating the adoption of Internet media and the viable business models to support it.

We don't want to have to make encoding video a political choice,

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.