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Jobs Resists Music Industry Pressure
Drew writes "Steve Jobs is opposed to raising the price of online music sales, calling the music industry greedy, and
implying that price increases will bring about more piracy." From the article: "It may not seem like it, but it has been more than two years since the launch of the iTunes Music Store, and that alone has the music industry brimming with hopes for price-adjustments. They also don't buy Jobs' argument that a price increase will result in more piracy, but probably not for the reasons we might assume. I've long been of the conviction that piracy is not nearly as large of a problem as the RIAA makes it out to be." Also covered at Macworld.
You can just get the song you want rather than the whole album. It's rare today to actually like all the songs on an album.
Good point - this is true.
Proprietary/Non-Portable format? What, you plan on running it on what? iTunes plays on Windows and Mac. What more do you want? Linux? There are plenty of ways to get a purchased song to work on Linux. Oh, and you do get album artwork.
You have no idea what proprietary means do you?
And nope, its not portable either. If you want to play it on linux, you have to convert it to the non-propiertary mp4.
Oh, and album artwork included with itunes is vastly inferior to what you get in a physical CD (which itself was vastly inferior to what you got with a typical LP)
Go back to drinking whatever flavor of Kool-Aid you have been drinking (me thinks it's Linux/Microsoft blend).
Blah blah blah, go back to accepting the DRM walls slowly arising around you, blinded by the Shiny Apple Goodness (tm).
My pics.
Your logic fascinates me... and probably eludes understanding. Let me elaborate...
What is your definition of a "normal" house, or, said differently, what properties qualify a house as "normal?" Is it the purchase price? Must it fall somewhere within the "average" price range for a home within a specific geographic area?
By implying that [what you perceive as] lavish homes make the owner greedy, can't that same standard be used on *any* homeowner? If you (or your parents) own a home, aren't you/they guilty of being greedy for purchasing it as oppsed to a less expensive home in a poorer neighborhood? How dare you/they use money to raise your standard of living!
Should people with wealth be restricted as to what they can spend it on? Just as the average homeowner attempts to get the best value for their money, shouldn't wealthy people be entitle to same? Since when do you dictate how others should spend their money? In short... what you preceive as "lavish" is actually "expected" and "normal" for someone of that wealth class. How Jobs chooses to spend his money, or what lifestyle he chooses to lead, is irrelevant and immaterial to how others (including Gates and Ellison) should lead their lives.
In short, I think your comment is intellectually bankrupt and not thought out at all.