Richard Doherty Quotes

"I believe it's inevitable,"

"A player that's licensed under the interim agreement will not be able to do managed copy."

"It's really a quality of service [move] for mobile entertainment."

"If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake."

"If there were 100 million music players shipping a year, which we think will happen by the end of the decade, people might go with Dell. Dell never broke out of the 'everybody else' category."

"That has the potential to be a high profit center for them, and it will be a very welcome service."

"You need to have fresh blood looking at chip technology and how it can be applied."

"It's a 'technology' we've been invited to see. That could be all kinds of things. But a device that is near to shipping would be surprising. If Microsoft was working with any of the major chip makers on a new device, it would be a long shot that that piece of information would not slip out until the product was almost ready."

"Bill Gates is a very accomplished software architect. A lot of people are cheering them on and a lot of people are very leery."

"Every month this battle wages, more people are getting used to getting video in other ways. That's the real enemy of this indecision."

"They have managed to create business where there was none. There was no personal computer until Apple. There was no digital video business until Apple. Today, the digital living room is a zero-billion-dollar-business. And it will probably stay that way until Apple gets into it."

"The PC has tripped on the carpet going into the living room."

"It's crazy. The sticker on your new player promises the equivalent of a high-performance car, but the fine print says you may be buying an Edsel instead."

"The big debate at E3 will be over whether graphics and sound are king [as in console games] or whether we want to be able to play others at any time [as in Internet-connected games], ... Nobody has the answer yet. If network gaming wins, you can bet game console sales would slow."

"It's a tremendous opportunity, ... There's no lower cost, high bandwidth way to reach consumers."