Staci at PaidContent is reporting Sun CEO Scott McNealy’s latest off-base, self-interested ranting. I guess the thin client thing has died so now Scott is taking aim at the portable music market. In Scott’s dream world, cell phones accessing music stored on central servers, Sun servers no doubt, will overtake the iPod. “It’s going to be hard to sell a lot of iPods five years from now when every cell phone is going to be able to automatically access your library wherever you are,” he’s reported to have said. Dream on, McNealy. Wireless companies are too anti-consumer to take over the market for portable mp3 players. Further, iPod owners will have many gigabytes of DRM-locked-in music and video in five years. Finally, I’m not a fan of converged devices (how are those MSN Spot watches selling?) and I don’t think that’s where the future lies.
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