Rob Glaser Quotations

six months to a year from now is realistic.

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 think that Microsoft disables our product and that clearly there was software that was designed intentionally to do so,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We've laid the foundation to bring our two companies together around entertainment areas that allow consumers to get what they want, where they want it, when they want it, and how they want it.

We've done a careful review of this, and we believe Microsoft is incorrect,

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

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.

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,

While our profit was substantially enlarged by the Microsoft antitrust settlement, our core businesses also contributed to that profit.

We're not one closed monolithic system where you have to use their device, their software and their service,

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,

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

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.

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.

That's most fun ? that, and seeing how the medium changes people's lives, are probably the two most exciting things about what I do.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm like a kid in a candy store

In terms of technology trends, a new operating system like XP makes a big difference. It makes the PC more stable and robust, so you can be running background tasks as your PC operates effectively as a hub or a server in your environment. Those are positive dimensions of a new operating system.

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.