Why not movies on the iPod? (Hint: Steve Jobs’s other job)

When launching the new photo-displaying iPod, Steve Jobs went to great pains to ridicule the idea of movies on iPod. This didn’t impress Russell Beattie, who thinks it may have something to with the fact that he runs a movie studio:

“Jobs had no problem promoting ‘ripping’ when he was ripping the Music Industry, did he? But ‘ripping’ a Pixar movie and suddenly Steve is talking about how video isn’t the right direction suddenly. Okay, sure. See you next year when the iPod Video is announced… it’ll be fun to hear the explanations then about how the ‘market is ready’ for the product, etc.”