Music Exec Fires Back At Apple CEO

geniusj writes "Warner Music Group CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr., has fired back at Steve Jobs in response to the Apple CEO's claim that having variable pricing for iTunes music would be 'greedy.' From the article: 'To have only one price point is not fair to our artists, and I dare say not appropriate to consumers. The market should decide, not a single retailer ... Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more. I don't want to give anyone the impression that $0.99 is a thing of the past ... We are selling our songs through iPod, but we don't have a share of iPod's revenue ... We want to share in those revenue streams. We have to get out of the mindset that our content has promotional value only.' Perhaps iPods combined with iPods are selling music as well, and it's not just a one-way street?"

Comments

Re:Taking this to its logical conclusion

[Anonymous Coward]

I also suggest speakerwire be taxed per foot, since the longer the cables, the bigger the room and thus the more people can listen at the same time.

Re:Do they get a share of the sale of CD players?

[Drooling Iguana]

He should run for President.

Re:Do they get a share of the sale of CD players?

[banzaimonkey]

Shares of Apple were up $0.47 to $52.37 in recent trading, while shares of Warner Music Group were down a penny to $18.03.

I think that alone says something.

As for the rest of the article, allow me to translate:

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

President?

[nhaines]

He's overqualified. ;)

Re:Do they get a share of the sale of CD players?

[natronxx]

Fortunately for all you Americans, I believe this jackass was born in Canada which would disqualify him from running for president.

Unfortunately for us Canadians, his being a jackass makes him perfectly qualified for running Canada.