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In this article from ITWire, Stan Beer talks about his interview with Greg Joswiak, VP of iPod Products at Apple. In the interview, when asked if the iPhone would enable users to “squirt” songs to other iPhone users, Joswiak answered, “Squirt, what’s that?”

Clearly Joswiak’s ignorance was not serious. For those who are unfamiliar, the newfound “song squirting” phenomenon refers to the application loaded on Microsoft’s Zune where users can transmit songs to each other through wi-fi. Personally, I feel this phenomenon is a made-up one. Copying songs to another user wirelessly is a cool idea. But due to Microsoft’s agreement with the record companies, having those squirted songs dissolve after 3 days is a bad idea.

Of course the iPhone would not support something as foolish as “squirting.” For one, Apple has their own deal with the music companies. For another, why would they ever build in a feature that would give even the possibility of a hint that they are following Microsoft’s lead?

What do you think? Is squirting a feature you wish the iPhone would come with?

David Pogue, the “Mack” in the Mac world from the New York Times Technology pages has published in his blog at the Times some transcripts from John Markoff’s interview with Steve Jobs at Macworld. In it he clarifies what Steve said about the support of java and flash with the iPhone. The most notable, is Steve’s quick negative response about java support. He also leaves the door open for flash support.

When asked about YouTube compatibility and Flash, Steve responded with “Yeah, YouTube - of course. But you don’t need to have Flash to show YouTube. All you need to do is deal with YouTube. And plus, we could get’em to up their video resolution at the same time, by using h.264 instead of the old codec.”

Seems like Steve might be thinking he can just throw his weight around to get Google/You Tube to switch their resolution. Is it me or is Steve getting a little cocky?