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Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price
eldavojohn writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been talking smack about DRM and has recently issued a verbal offer to major music lables stating that if they are willing to lose the DRM, he'd be willing to raise his 99 cent price for those iTunes songs. These tracks (such as the recent EMI deal) would also have better sound quality & cost about 30 cents more."
Obviously Jobs has figured out the profit formula:
1. Sell broken product
2. Wait until customers get angry
3. Sell fixed product for more money
4. Profit!
Ok, so now when you purchase a whole album, you get:
)) Pay as much or more than you would for the CD
)) Lossy compression (maybe better quality, but still not as good)
)) No album art
)) Save the producers the cost of stamping CD/printing art/distribution
Why am I paying _more_ for this? Hmm. Buying/ripping CDs is starting to look like a good idea again.
sig: sauer
My records are free of DRM and sound great, on top of that i can record them in to my computer and if the hard drive dies my records are safe.