Ian Jackson Quotes

• I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you’ll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

  Ian Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Entertainment, Successful, Music

• I think it’s going to deliver on the promises we’ve said it’s going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

  Ian Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Different, Environment

• I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

  Ian Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Entertainment, Expect

• If we deliver on those promises, we’ll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we’re going about it the right way.

  Ian Jackson

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Promises, Right

• I’m sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that’s my general style.

  Ian Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Sorry

• We’re going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you’ve always expected from Playstation – a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  Ian Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Environment, Expect, Great

• What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

  Ian Jackson

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Industry, Company

Ian Jackson (7)

Nationality:	British
Profession:	Computer Scientist

About

Ian Jackson is a British Computer Scientist. He is a long time free software author and Debian developer. He wrote dpkg, SAUCE, userv and debbugs. He used to maintain the Linux FAQ. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University. Jackson was vice-president and then president of Software in the Public Interest in 1998 and 1999.

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