Nitin Gupta Quotes (20 Quotes)

This will give a larger subscriber base a chance to try XM content without going through the hassle of getting the necessary equipment. If they find the programming valuable, it would be a lot easier to sign them up. The added distribution that XM will get from this relationship will be very beneficial.

We're seeing, in the past few months, a trend towards longer form content becoming available for free and supported by advertising .

Using the audio player will not diminish its capabilities. It's not a realistic concern when using flash-based phones.

That's something a lot of PC makers are struggling with today and it's something Apple has done really well.

Those who are serious about the latest high-definition games need more power, but until the manufacturers add capabilities for playing next-generation, high-definition video, it remains a niche market.

This is some low-hanging fruit. Apple tried to sell the lack of a screen as a feature with the Shuffle, so the Shuffle is easy to compete against. But you have to look at the whole environment. Apple's iPods are doing fabulous and their online music store, iTunes, is No. 1.

The beginning of a legitimate service would be filling a consumer need. I don't think 1.99 is a compelling business model. ABC is trying to gauge the market.

There might not be a lot of demand among current iPod users, but the real attraction will be among those who don't have the music players but want to try digital audio.

These devices do a lot, but the message gets muddled. What are they for The big challenge is to create a reason to watch video on a tiny screen.

This is a service targeted at a device that millions of people are buying, and the mobile phone is a good vector for audio, but manufacturers and carriers still have to convince consumers that the phones are not just communications devices.

Vista will provide content owners with a more secure platform to deliver their premium content. However, it will take more than an operating system to turn the PC into a media hub. Creating innovative consumer experiences around premium content will help expand the market for content delivery via the PC. Vista is not the key component.

By adding MTV into the mix, Microsoft has given its Media Player a huge boost.

This type of content is now driving sales, and Apple is leading the way in media consumption.

Video was inevitable in digital audio players to actually build the consumer demand portion of that, there really needs to be compelling content. What's promising is that you have one of the biggest content companies in the world willing to experiment with this. But I'm doubtful it will appeal (right now). What will be more compelling is 10 for a whole season. But with Apple and Disney talking, it brings the ability for innovative distribution deals to come to light.

That's certainly something they could implement. The real issue is the purchased music portion. That's not going to change anytime soon.

Dell is going after Apple's low-hanging fruit with a price and memory capacity that are about the same as the Shuffle. It might be a more compelling device, with the screen and FM tuner, but Apple has its popular iTunes library and offers a better user experience.

Sony has tremendous brand strength in portable-audio players. And the digital-audio market is going to expand dramatically in the next few years.

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

The new card will provide Bank of India's customers with secure and convenient electronic access to their own money anytime, anywhere.

There's been a lot of speculation about the iPod phone, which represents a trend toward providing handhelds with digital-content playback capabilities.