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iTMS Named Fortune's Product Of The Year
Demolition writes "To go along with Time Magazine calling the iTunes Music Store the Invention Of The Year, Fortune Magazine has come along and proclaimed iTunes Music Store as the Product Of The Year. As it says in the article, 'With the success of its iTunes Music Store, Apple is almost single-handedly dragging the music industry, kicking and screaming, toward a better future.'" Also, Fortune named the G5 one of the 25 Best Products of the Year for Design.
Why don't we invent Open Music, put it under a modified GPL, and remove the entire monetary component out of the industry?
Do you think SCO would then accuse the musicians of using some crappy old song they came up with a while ago as the basis of all the Open songs?
Well I'm willing to take that risk.
Esoteric reference.
No, Napster had the "let's break the current business model by producing a system that makes copyright infringement easy and natural to everyone with a computer."
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You said it dude! I will only start using iTMS if it starts making profit via increased sales in Cascade dishwasher detergent.
Because I love Cascade, and I hate iPods.
Hey cool man, I agree that it is pretty cool to buy your music from the cool Apple iTunes store (which starts with i which is double cool) using the uber cool software iTunes. Add the coolest 2000$ mac computer, the coolest hardware in the world, and you have the coolest setup. Finally add the cool panther and what do you have, a cool mac. For this only, we need to give the Apple their due, cause it is quite "innovative" to have this coolness. Also it is cool to say that Apple is cool.
Yes it is!
sulli
RTFJ.
Maybe people should get J-O-B's if they don't have food shelter and utilities. Geeze, you'd think earning money as a musician was guaranteed in the constitution.
Don't people have to have heard of you to become important?
Yes, I love downhillbattle's logic towards iTMS.
You know, I think Wal-Mart is horrible for this country (price fixing, anti-competitive behaviour, etc). This justifies the $20,000 or so worth of merchandise I've shoplifted so far this year.
The big banks are just as bad. They are paying out lower and lower interest rates on savings and money market accounts, and filling their own coffers even more as a result. So that makes it okay that I robbed a Bank of America last month.
And of course, the middlemen in the music industry make buying a CD futile, or at least downloading one from iTMS. I think I'll open up Kazaa again.
Your username is Malicious.
That rhymes with "delicious".
Cookies are delicious.
A cookie theft exploit was recently discussed regarding Apple's Safari.
You often see monkeys when you're on a safari.
I smell monkey shit. I think it's coming from your post.
Err...I'm from the US, and I stretch my plastic every holiday season.
Or at least my ability to pay it off..