Before CD's, you had two choices in how to listen to an album. Either on a record or a cassette. Both formats pretty much forced you to listen to the album in its entirety. When the CD came out, all of a sudden it become easier to listen to individual tracks.
So people buying singles from iTunes is a result of the CD killing the concept of the album itself.
Yeah, but how many mp3 players are out there for cars? Very few compared to iPods. Every online music store will be implementing AAC as soon as possible.
Wow, after a post like that, I would expect Steve Jobs to call you personally and apologize. In fact, he'll probably do whatever it takes to get your business back. But unfortunately, you commented as an AC, so I guess you are SOL.
Let me guess. You probably are one of those who thinks a band is cool until they start to sell. After that, you consider them sell-outs. Am I accurate on this?
I remember the 80's radio scene. My local rock station was pretty much like this from 1981-85:
Van Halen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Aerosmith. There was no R.E.M. or U2 or INXS or Husker Du or The Cure any alternative band being played on mainstream radio.
While you may consider these guys corporate now, they were not corporate bands in the early to mid 80's. 1987 seemed to be the breakout year for U2, R.E.M., The Cure, and INXS and alternative music in general to get actual air play. Then Nirvana came along in 1991 and alternative became mainstream.
I worked at a CompUSA back in 1994 for about 6 months. We made about $5 off each printer. The printer cables listed at $2 for our costs, and we sold them for $20-$30. So we made more off the cables than the printers. Thats why we "didn't throw in a printer cable".
CompUSA in 1994 was far nicer than today, at least the store I worked at. Now it looks like a warehouse with boxes all over the floor. At least it did the last time I was in there.
I played with Aperture 1.1 but its performance was horrible. Aperture 1.5's performance is much better. I haven't messed with Lightroom so I can't say much about it. But I'm very happy with Aperture. It runs pretty well on my Dual G5 2.0ghz PowerMac. And thats only got an ATI 9600 card in it. I'd love to try it out on a new MacPro.
The iTunes Music Store doesn't sell music with DRM on it. The DRM is added on at the client, iTunes. DVD Jon proved that about two years ago. As of right now, all music sent down to the client from the store gets DRM put on it. Could this change? Sure.
UVA has been doing a technology survey of incoming freshman since 1997 and this year's numbers are startling. The use of Macs is up to almost 20% of freshman according to this http://www.itc.virginia.edu/stuserv/ca/cainventory /compare/ survey.
He made a statement that Apple would sell music without DRM if the labels would let him and people accuse him of being a cheat, looking out for his own interests. How would selling DRM-free music benefit Apple at all? It wouldn't. It would level the playing field on both online stores and music players. Apple has about 70-75% of the market with DRM. How could they sustain this market with DRM-free music? I don't think they could. So for Jobs to say he wants to drop DRM is a big statement.
I hope EMI follows through on this. Without DRM, now we'll have real competition. Stores will differentiate on quality of music, artists available, and price. I think in the end, FLAC will become the format of choice so player compatibility won't be an issue at all.
And I still think Apple has something up its sleeve. Now that they've settled their feud with Apple Corp., they are free to enter the music business. At some point, they will have an agreement with a major artist to sell the artists music on iTunes without one of the Big 4 labels being involved. This could signal a major shift in artists way of thinking. Who needs a label if you can distribute your music through iTunes?
This will also start a new industry of marketing agencies whose primary business will be marketing recording artists. They will become the promoters instead of the record labels. In 10 years, the labels will either be transformed into promoters or be out of business.
You either have DRM or you don't. I, for one, hope the RIAA comes to their senses at some point in time and drops their demand for DRM'd music on online music stores. I don't share my music now. And I rarely buy anything on iTunes because of the DRM.
Apple controls everything regarding the iPod. But the iPhone has to work with Cingular. Who knows how much Cingular will charge for service to use the features of the iPhone. I'm guessing somewhere around $100 per month at least. Thats a complete deal breaker for me. The only way the iPhone will be real success is for Apple to lease their own network and provide a flat rate to their subscribers. Because Cingular will do everything it can to screw its customers. Just like Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Alltel as well.
As a Virginian, I am astonished at the stupidity in this proposal. Obviously, Bob McDonnell doesn't realize that it is possible to obtain more than one email address or im nickname.
Its not funny. As a Mac user, I don't expect my phone to sync up with my address book or have iChat integration. This is a bad joke. It would be great if it were true though.:-)
They'll go to Vista when their PC's on their PC replacement program with Dell, ship with Vista. And they'll switch to Office 2007 when their Enterprise license ends for Office 2003. Its that simple.
What good is a paper trail? Sure, it will print out the votes that I cast. But how do I know they are really being counted? Electronic voting just doesn't work. We need a manual system where you mark your ballot with permanent ink and that ballot gets counted both by machine and by hand. And the choices have to be far enough apart on the ballot to prevent inconsistencies. Its the only way.
Since they are incapable of coming up with ideas on their own, this unfortunately may provide them with an idea. I wouldn't be surprised to see a bill in the House regarding home theaters in the next year or so.
What good is it if the machine prints me a receipt of who I voted for? Who's to say what gets printed is what actually gets tabulated? I really believe the ballots themselves should be paper, with the check boxes far enough apart to prevent confusion and should be marked with permanent ink. Then they should be scanned and the votes tabulated that way. This way, there IS a paper trail.
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Before CD's, you had two choices in how to listen to an album. Either on a record or a cassette. Both formats pretty much forced you to listen to the album in its entirety. When the CD came out, all of a sudden it become easier to listen to individual tracks.
So people buying singles from iTunes is a result of the CD killing the concept of the album itself.
Yeah, but how many mp3 players are out there for cars? Very few compared to iPods. Every online music store will be implementing AAC as soon as possible.
I haven't read the article yet, so I don't know if its listed. Going to read it now.
Wow, after a post like that, I would expect Steve Jobs to call you personally and apologize. In fact, he'll probably do whatever it takes to get your business back. But unfortunately, you commented as an AC, so I guess you are SOL.
Let me guess. You probably are one of those who thinks a band is cool until they start to sell. After that, you consider them sell-outs. Am I accurate on this?
I remember the 80's radio scene. My local rock station was pretty much like this from 1981-85:
Van Halen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Aerosmith. There was no R.E.M. or U2 or INXS or Husker Du or The Cure any alternative band being played on mainstream radio.
While you may consider these guys corporate now, they were not corporate bands in the early to mid 80's. 1987 seemed to be the breakout year for U2, R.E.M., The Cure, and INXS and alternative music in general to get actual air play. Then Nirvana came along in 1991 and alternative became mainstream.
You must not like your mom. Why didn't you just get her a MacBook? Show her some love.
Except she'll probably go on to law school
I worked at a CompUSA back in 1994 for about 6 months. We made about $5 off each printer. The printer cables listed at $2 for our costs, and we sold them for $20-$30. So we made more off the cables than the printers. Thats why we "didn't throw in a printer cable".
CompUSA in 1994 was far nicer than today, at least the store I worked at. Now it looks like a warehouse with boxes all over the floor. At least it did the last time I was in there.
I played with Aperture 1.1 but its performance was horrible. Aperture 1.5's performance is much better. I haven't messed with Lightroom so I can't say much about it. But I'm very happy with Aperture. It runs pretty well on my Dual G5 2.0ghz PowerMac. And thats only got an ATI 9600 card in it. I'd love to try it out on a new MacPro.
The iTunes Music Store doesn't sell music with DRM on it. The DRM is added on at the client, iTunes. DVD Jon proved that about two years ago. As of right now, all music sent down to the client from the store gets DRM put on it. Could this change? Sure.
UVA has been doing a technology survey of incoming freshman since 1997 and this year's numbers are startling. The use of Macs is up to almost 20% of freshman according to this http://www.itc.virginia.edu/stuserv/ca/cainventory /compare/ survey.
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And Princeton's school newspaper has reported that 45% of all computers sold on campus this year are Macs. http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/10
He made a statement that Apple would sell music without DRM if the labels would let him and people accuse him of being a cheat, looking out for his own interests. How would selling DRM-free music benefit Apple at all? It wouldn't. It would level the playing field on both online stores and music players. Apple has about 70-75% of the market with DRM. How could they sustain this market with DRM-free music? I don't think they could. So for Jobs to say he wants to drop DRM is a big statement.
I hope EMI follows through on this. Without DRM, now we'll have real competition. Stores will differentiate on quality of music, artists available, and price. I think in the end, FLAC will become the format of choice so player compatibility won't be an issue at all.
And I still think Apple has something up its sleeve. Now that they've settled their feud with Apple Corp., they are free to enter the music business. At some point, they will have an agreement with a major artist to sell the artists music on iTunes without one of the Big 4 labels being involved. This could signal a major shift in artists way of thinking. Who needs a label if you can distribute your music through iTunes?
This will also start a new industry of marketing agencies whose primary business will be marketing recording artists. They will become the promoters instead of the record labels. In 10 years, the labels will either be transformed into promoters or be out of business.
Although very few use Stable. Most are using testing.
You either have DRM or you don't. I, for one, hope the RIAA comes to their senses at some point in time and drops their demand for DRM'd music on online music stores. I don't share my music now. And I rarely buy anything on iTunes because of the DRM.
Apple controls everything regarding the iPod. But the iPhone has to work with Cingular. Who knows how much Cingular will charge for service to use the features of the iPhone. I'm guessing somewhere around $100 per month at least. Thats a complete deal breaker for me. The only way the iPhone will be real success is for Apple to lease their own network and provide a flat rate to their subscribers. Because Cingular will do everything it can to screw its customers. Just like Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Alltel as well.
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As a Virginian, I am astonished at the stupidity in this proposal. Obviously, Bob McDonnell doesn't realize that it is possible to obtain more than one email address or im nickname.
I never see more than one person in any area.
Its not funny. As a Mac user, I don't expect my phone to sync up with my address book or have iChat integration. This is a bad joke. It would be great if it were true though. :-)
They'll go to Vista when their PC's on their PC replacement program with Dell, ship with Vista. And they'll switch to Office 2007 when their Enterprise license ends for Office 2003. Its that simple.
What good is a paper trail? Sure, it will print out the votes that I cast. But how do I know they are really being counted? Electronic voting just doesn't work. We need a manual system where you mark your ballot with permanent ink and that ballot gets counted both by machine and by hand. And the choices have to be far enough apart on the ballot to prevent inconsistencies. Its the only way.
They'd drop the case. They are nothing but bullies without the balls to fight. They are hoping you give in.
Since they are incapable of coming up with ideas on their own, this unfortunately may provide them with an idea. I wouldn't be surprised to see a bill in the House regarding home theaters in the next year or so.
You predicted this back in 1999. It just took Microsoft this long to actually implement this plan.
What good is it if the machine prints me a receipt of who I voted for? Who's to say what gets printed is what actually gets tabulated? I really believe the ballots themselves should be paper, with the check boxes far enough apart to prevent confusion and should be marked with permanent ink. Then they should be scanned and the votes tabulated that way. This way, there IS a paper trail.