{"id":4273,"date":"2009-06-29T00:16:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2009-06-29T00:16:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T15:16:30","slug":"masayoshi-son-retrospects-a-meeting-with-steve-jobs-about-cellphone-ipod-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/masayoshi-son-retrospects-a-meeting-with-steve-jobs-about-cellphone-ipod-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Masayoshi Son Retrospects A Meeting With Steve Jobs About Cellphone iPod Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the iPhone 3GS launch event in Omotesando, Tokyo, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Softbank\">Softbank<\/a> CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masayoshi_Son\">Masayoshi Son<\/a> told a story about when he talked an idea of combining iPod and cellphone to Steve Jobs.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vepD6Jo_guI&#038;hl=ja&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nAccording to Son, he had a meeting with jobs in 4,5 years ago, which is before he bought the Japan&#8217;s third biggest cellphone company from Vodafone. There he told Jobs about his intention either to establish or buy cellphone company in Japan, and asked if Apple could make a new device which combines their popular music player iPod and cellphone. Jobs answered to Son that he actually had been thinking the same idea.<br \/>\nHe also announced that the nation&#8217;s superstar group <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=smap\">SMAP<\/a> is cast as their Softbank Mobile&#8217;s brand character, stepping into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksugar.com\/1501304\">Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt<\/a>&#8216;s shoes.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sohaya.com\/2009\/06\/27\/softbank-iphone3gs-launch-event\/\">iPhone 3G Wiki blog<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the iPhone 3GS launch event in Omotesando, Tokyo, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son told a story about when he talked an idea of combining iPod and cellphone to Steve Jobs. According to Son, he had a meeting with jobs in 4,5 years ago, which is before he bought the Japan&#8217;s third biggest cellphone company from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/masayoshi-son-retrospects-a-meeting-with-steve-jobs-about-cellphone-ipod-idea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masayoshi Son Retrospects A Meeting With Steve Jobs About Cellphone iPod Idea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[267,591,1732,1742,2232,3436,3514],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-apple","tag-cell-phone","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-masayoshi-son","tag-softbank","tag-steve-jobs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}