Steve Jobs on NPR Radio: Listening in the Car
What Jobs talks about
In this short excerpt, Jobs talks about a radio product he calls “Rabbit Radio,” describing it as something that finds a local NPR station and lets you listen in the car.
His point is simple: good technology should make listening easier and more flexible, even when the dashboard is off.
The clip is notable less for technical detail than for Jobs’s enthusiasm for a product that makes radio access feel seamless and useful.
Jobs speaks throughout.
In his words
“This finds your local, NPR station.”
“Isn't that great?”
“And you can just listen to it.”
“And you can even listen to it when dashboards off.”
“Nothing as great as NPR.”
Key points
- A good device should make it easy to find and hear NPR locally.
- The best products work even when the dashboard is off.
- Jobs frames the experience as convenient and delightful.
- He closes with clear praise for NPR.
Full transcript
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Transcribed from the audio by speech recognition (Deepgram). Timestamps link to the video above. Errors are possible.