David Pogue Q&a With Steve Jobs

David Pogue published a short interview with Steve Jobs on his blog.

The leading question: Why no video camera on the iPod touch:

Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine. Because a lot of the games were free on the store. Customers started to tell us, “You don’t know what you’ve got here — it’s a great game machine, with the multitouch screen, the accelerometer, and so on.”

Jobs takes a stab at Amazon, but I didn’t think it was that pointed. If anything, it was just bluntly truthful without being disrespectful.

Jobs also talked about trying to gain 30 pounds by eating lots of ice cream.