OS-9-Delete-Voicemail-iPhone-screenshot-001.jpg' alt='Day 40 Ipod Movie' title='Day 40 Ipod Movie' />Steve Jobs on Amazon and Ice Cream. Apples chief executive, Steven P. Itunes Movies For Ipod Max & Me. Clearance Electronics Office Movies, Music Books Home, Furniture Appliances Home Improvement Patio Clothing, Shoes Jewelry Baby Toddler Toys Video Games. The best deals to be found on the web, all in one place for your convenience Jobs, discussed his health and Apples new product line in an interview Wednesday with David Pogue, the personal technology columnist for The New York Times. Context has been added to the original quotes posted here. On Wednesday in San Francisco, I attended Apples annual i. Pod Show, its holiday season kickoff of new i. Pods and i. Tunes Store developments. Ill have a look at whats new in a post on Pogues Posts on Thursday. But on Wednesday, I had the chance to chat with Steve Jobs after the event. I asked him, first of all, what the blogospheres been buzzing about why Apple put a video camera into the tiny i. Pod Nano and not the i. Pod Touch. Mr. Jobs reiterated what Phil Schiller, the marketing vice president, had said earlier in the onstage presentation that Apple is really pitching the i. Pod Touch as a game machine these days. And to do that, you have to make it as inexpensive as possible. Originally, we werent exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an i. Phone without the phone Was it a pocket computer What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine, he said. We started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is its the lowest cost way to the App Store, and thats the big draw. So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to 1. We dont need to add new stuff. We need to get the price down where everyone can afford it. I also asked him why the Nano can record video, but cant snap still photos. That reason, he said, is technical the sensors you need to record video are extremely thin these daysthin enough to fit into the wafer thin Nano. But the ones with enough resolution for stills, especially with autofocus like the sensor in the i. Phone, are much too thick to cram into a player thats only 0. A couple of years ago, pre Kindle, Mr. Jobs expressed his doubts that e readers were ready for prime time. So today, I asked if his opinions have changed. Im sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages in doing just one thing, he said. But I think the general purpose devices will win the day. Because I think people just probably arent willing to pay for a dedicated device. He said that Apple doesnt see e books as a big market at this point, and pointed out that Amazon. Kindles it sells. Usually, if they sell a lot of something, you want to tell everybody. The products that Apple revealed today have been in the works for a while since before Mr. Jobss health related hiatus from running Apple. I wondered since he was gone for several months, will we see a several month gap in the new products coming out of Apple There are some things that Im focusing a lot of attention on right nowto polish, he said. No, I dont think were going to miss a beat. We have some really good stuff coming up. Finally, as I left, I asked him how hes feeling these days another question on everybodys mind. I probably need to gain about 3. I feel really good. Im eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream, he said with a chuckle.