In an interview with Newsweek, Apple CEO Steve Jobs says: “The problem is, the PC model doesn’t work in the consumer electronics industry, where you’ve got all these companies and some does one thing and another does another thing. It just doesn’t work. What’s going to happen is that Microsoft is going to have to get into the hardware business of making MP3 players. This year. X-player, or whatever.

You’ve got to admit, picking 14 million in the spring of last year, when the most you’ve ever sold was four and half million, was a pretty big bet,” Jobs says.

The interview also takes a look at Apple’s Macs and the company’s move to the Intel processor, with Jobs discussing the reason Apple used its first ever processor, the 6502: “We used it because Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak got one for free,” he explained.

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