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  1. Caffeine Junkies: privacy warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mac mini Built Into Wall

    This Website does not obey standards itself by requiring cookies, but not providing any privacy statement about their use and not proving any opt-out choice. This is both rude and illegal in Europe.

    "need to include ... a statement to individuals which clearly outlines a user's rights as well as an 'opt out' choice."
    Cookies Present Legal Woes

    Cookies are only allowed "...on condition that the subscriber or user is provided with clear and comprehensive information in accordance with [the Data Protection Directive about] the purposes of the processing and is offered the right to refuse such processing".
    Data protection law passed in Europe

    The moral for Caffeine Junkies is - check your own standards compliance before criticising alleged problems with IE.

  2. Innovation != Profitability by JaF893 · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Google vs. Yahoo: On a Collision Course

    Google might be a lot more innovative than Yahoo! But it's not like Yahoo! are going out of business.

    Look at Microsoft - many here on /. say they aren't innovative but they still seem to making a tidy profit.

  3. Tail wagging the dog.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sony's New DRM Technique

    ....yet again. Buying up content companies is seriously damaging Sony's hardware market. All attempts at making decent hardware get screwed by the media division insisting on locking up everything Sony hardware plays...
    Want a multi-region DVD player? Don't buy a Sony. No hidden menus to manage the region, you have to get the player chipped.
    Want an ebook reader? Sony have a Librié: nice hardware, apart from the small detail that books that you've paid for evaporate after a few weeks, by design
    Then there's the minidisk. Didn't I see something about someone recording his kid's birth/first steps/whatever, then finding out the player refused to let him copy the files....
    Playstation? They want to keep all the software locked up
    Sony's hardware business is bigger than its media division. Why does the media division decide what the hardware will do? Until they see sense, don't buy Sony.

  4. Re:Pre announcements by mp3phish · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Major Hangups Over the iPod Phone
    Heh, Problem is he forgot to do his:

    Apple gets 3 times as much money as musicians from each sale. Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract


    Sites in the US typically sell tracks for 99 cents each. The wholesale price is currently 65 cents per track


    The wholesale price of a track is thought to be around 65c, but the success of Apple's iTunes online music store, which to date has sold more than 200m songs and accounts for some 65% of the download market, has raised the eyebrows of music executives


    In the United States, online stores typical sell music downloads for about 99c per track. The wholesale cost of these tracks (that the shops pay) is about 65c."


    The majors are asking and getting about 65 cents per download from each 99 cent download from Apple


    with Apple paying the record companies an average of 65cents per track...[from a FORTUNE article]


    And straight from the FT horse's mouth. (reg required)

  5. Re:Last time I checked... by mp3phish · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Major Hangups Over the iPod Phone
    Apple gets much more than 4c per song. The analysis you are seeing on stock geek websites are showing total operational profits. NOT the margin on the actual song.

    Apple gets 3 times as much money as musicians from each sale. Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract


    Sites in the US typically sell tracks for 99 cents each. The wholesale price is currently 65 cents per track


    The wholesale price of a track is thought to be around 65c, but the success of Apple's iTunes online music store, which to date has sold more than 200m songs and accounts for some 65% of the download market, has raised the eyebrows of music executives


    In the United States, online stores typical sell music downloads for about 99c per track. The wholesale cost of these tracks (that the shops pay) is about 65c."


    The majors are asking and getting about 65 cents per download from each 99 cent download from Apple


    with Apple paying the record companies an average of 65cents per track...[from a FORTUNE article]


    And straight from the FT horse's mouth. (reg required)

  6. Re:Pre announcements by mp3phish · · Score: 1, Redundant · on Major Hangups Over the iPod Phone
    "Where did you check?"

    Apple gets 3 times as much money as musicians from each sale. Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract


    And checked:
    Sites in the US typically sell tracks for 99 cents each. The wholesale price is currently 65 cents per track


    And Checked again:
    The wholesale price of a track is thought to be around 65c, but the success of Apple's iTunes online music store, which to date has sold more than 200m songs and accounts for some 65% of the download market, has raised the eyebrows of music executives


    And Checked again:
    In the United States, online stores typical sell music downloads for about 99c per track. The wholesale cost of these tracks (that the shops pay) is about 65c."


    And Checked again:
    The majors are asking and getting about 65 cents per download from each 99 cent download from Apple


    And Checked again:
    with Apple paying the record companies an average of 65cents per track...[from a FORTUNE article]


    And Checked again:
    And straight from the FT horse's mouth. (reg required)

    "Because the numbers I have (as a shareholder) reveal that margins are closer to 6%"

    Then you are not a very astute shareholder. Total operating profits ARE NOT THE SAME as resellers margin. Apple sells their songs at a significant margin. This isn't going to stop them from burning it all on (well recieved) advertising. But it certaintly does not have anything to do with "razor thin" margins. MARGINS are defined based on the cost of a product. PROFITS are defined based on your total revenues and your total costs. There is a HUGE difference here. iTMS is a VERY HIGH MARGIN business. It just so happens that Apple puts nearly every penny they earn off it back into the business in the form of advertising.

    Get your facts straight before you go spouting off your BS about being a "shareholder" and your "portfolio" says differently and the "data you have" shows differently. Saying things like this doesn't make you look smarter. Having a Ph.D. doesn't make you look smarter. It just makes other people who read your posts confused because they are reading 2 different things (yours being the wrong one)

    "I'll let the Ph.D. and my publications speak to that"

    With all due respect, I hope your Ph.D. it is not business, being that you cannot accurately define margin and profit.
  7. Re:Pre announcements by mp3phish · · Score: 1 · on Major Hangups Over the iPod Phone
    "You never "checked". Apple does not release information on their gross or net profits per song. There has been a credible analyst that puts it at 25c proft, and an analyst in TFA puts it at 4c. Truth is we really don't know."

    No, I did check:
    Apple gets 3 times as much money as musicians from each sale. Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract


    And checked:
    Sites in the US typically sell tracks for 99 cents each. The wholesale price is currently 65 cents per track


    And Checked again:
    The wholesale price of a track is thought to be around 65c, but the success of Apple's iTunes online music store, which to date has sold more than 200m songs and accounts for some 65% of the download market, has raised the eyebrows of music executives


    And Checked again:
    In the United States, online stores typical sell music downloads for about 99c per track. The wholesale cost of these tracks (that the shops pay) is about 65c."


    And Checked again:
    The majors are asking and getting about 65 cents per download from each 99 cent download from Apple


    And Checked again:
    with Apple paying the record companies an average of 65cents per track...[from a FORTUNE article]


    And Checked again:
    And straight from the FT horse's mouth. (reg required)

    Please NOTICE for one second that I never talked about PROFITS. I talked about resellers margins. There is a BIG difference. Apple just happens to spend most of their margins on advertising. If you make a million dollars in a year doing business, but spend a million advertising, then that is a break even. It doesn't mean that you didn't sell something for a million dollars more than you paid for it though!
  8. Re:Didn't.... by NickFitz · · Score: 1 · on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines

    Sorry for being facetious :-)

    I too had vaguely thought that Yahoo! had already switched. From reading this article, I think I probably just assumed, when they bought Inktomi, that they would have made the switch straight away.

    Another interesting point is that so far, they have only rolled this out in the US. Looks like we Europeans will have to wait to be Slurped ;-)

  9. Re:Kinda like the RIAA and music! by jrumney · · Score: 1 · on Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office

    What poor sales?