"But my 85-year-old uncle probably will never own an iPod, and I hope we'll get him to own a Zune."
There is sell and there is sell not, there is no 'hope'!.....And this is why you fail....
When the iPod first came out, many of the people that bought iPods (and to a lesser extent other MP3 players) were early adopters, people that like gadgets,
but also those that probably have quite extensive music collections. The had already transferred their home collections to MP3 and now were looking for
other music to buy, or they simply wanted all their favorites in MP3 format. As the past few years have gone on, those people who first bought large amounts
of music online no longer need to buy MP3s as much, and have been replaced with more casual listeners that hardly listen to their entire music collection and
really aren't interested in much outside of that. The number of iTunes users has grown, but their appetite for music is less and so they buy less. I for one am
not surprised at the downturn, but as new iPod models come out with the ability to watch videos/movies I bet you'll see a shift in buying numbers move from
purely audio to video (with an adjustment made for the increased price causing some type of buying reduction, perhaps a 20-30% reduction). Whether this is the case or not, Apple will still crank out the iPod in vast quantities and make pretty decent money on them.
So Earthlink is losing 9 out of every 10 e-mails....wasn't there an article recently that said 9 out of 10 e-mails were spam?
I look forward to getting (or not getting) my 1 e-mail out of 10...it's kinda like playing a game with 1 in 10 odds....
I'm sure you'll see this game on right after Texas Hold 'em on ESPN...
If you're into fiction then I would suggest you
try some of Umberto Eco's novels. Focault's Pendulum, Name of the Rose, and Island of the Day Before....The writing is exceptionally good. At the very least these novels are
quite verbose and you may need to have a dictionary near by. I guarantee reading these books will bump your mensa score up a few points...
And I also want to throw my 2 cents in for William Gibson (Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
and Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, also of the recent Minority Report movie fame)
I just love this quote from Ms. Rosen...
"It is time to get coordinated and aggressive with the new round of peer to peer services. The amount of music being downloaded is, as you know, reaching unprecedented levels. Since college started last week Morpheus traffic was up to 19 million downloads per day. AND THAT'S JUST
MORPHEUS. With the imminent launch of legitimate subscription services we have to get our customers back," Rosen told executives at various major labels, Yahoo, Real Networks, Microsoft and AOL in an email.
the part I took note of was the "we have to get our customers back...", The more I read about this topic, the more it makes me think that/. needs to put the 'ol Borg outfit on Ms Rosen.
People do NOT want to be dragged kicking and screaming back to purchasing overpriced CDs and
tapes, that's the whole problem they have to
realize. If they want to get their customers back,
they should develop a competing system, otherwise
come up with a different, cheaper distribution system. P2P will not stop as long as entertainment
media (especially of the digital variety) is so
ridiculously overpriced. It will even flourish
as more people like Ms Rosen try to strangle it
to death with litigation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but back in WWI,
there was an encoded telegraph sent by the Germans to the Mexicans which encouraged them to
revolt against the U.S. so that they might distract the U.S. in order to help the Germans
in their war on the European continent.
The name given to this telegraph was the
'Zimmerman telegraph'. The British were able to crack the code and decypher the message, and thereby alert the Americans to the German
plans. Seeing as though it took the Brits, to crack a coded telegram by Zimmerman to limit or stop a possible war on the U.S. continent, could not the same thing happen today?
Could an ally of, or the U.S., help crack a Zimmerman code to help stop a (terrorist)
war on the North American
continent?....
It's just food for thought, but the paralells
between the 2 stories are a little eye-opening...
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"But my 85-year-old uncle probably will never own an iPod, and I hope we'll get him to own a Zune." There is sell and there is sell not, there is no 'hope'!.....And this is why you fail....
When the iPod first came out, many of the people that bought iPods (and to a lesser extent other MP3 players) were early adopters, people that like gadgets, but also those that probably have quite extensive music collections. The had already transferred their home collections to MP3 and now were looking for other music to buy, or they simply wanted all their favorites in MP3 format. As the past few years have gone on, those people who first bought large amounts of music online no longer need to buy MP3s as much, and have been replaced with more casual listeners that hardly listen to their entire music collection and really aren't interested in much outside of that. The number of iTunes users has grown, but their appetite for music is less and so they buy less. I for one am not surprised at the downturn, but as new iPod models come out with the ability to watch videos/movies I bet you'll see a shift in buying numbers move from purely audio to video (with an adjustment made for the increased price causing some type of buying reduction, perhaps a 20-30% reduction). Whether this is the case or not, Apple will still crank out the iPod in vast quantities and make pretty decent money on them.
So Earthlink is losing 9 out of every 10 e-mails....wasn't there an article recently that said 9 out of 10 e-mails were spam? I look forward to getting (or not getting) my 1 e-mail out of 10...it's kinda like playing a game with 1 in 10 odds.... I'm sure you'll see this game on right after Texas Hold 'em on ESPN...
"All your Al Queda base are belong to me!"
If you're into fiction then I would suggest you try some of Umberto Eco's novels. Focault's Pendulum, Name of the Rose, and Island of the Day Before....The writing is exceptionally good. At the very least these novels are quite verbose and you may need to have a dictionary near by. I guarantee reading these books will bump your mensa score up a few points... And I also want to throw my 2 cents in for William Gibson (Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive) and Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, also of the recent Minority Report movie fame)
I just love this quote from Ms. Rosen... "It is time to get coordinated and aggressive with the new round of peer to peer services. The amount of music being downloaded is, as you know, reaching unprecedented levels. Since college started last week Morpheus traffic was up to 19 million downloads per day. AND THAT'S JUST MORPHEUS. With the imminent launch of legitimate subscription services we have to get our customers back," Rosen told executives at various major labels, Yahoo, Real Networks, Microsoft and AOL in an email. the part I took note of was the "we have to get our customers back...", The more I read about this topic, the more it makes me think that /. needs to put the 'ol Borg outfit on Ms Rosen.
People do NOT want to be dragged kicking and screaming back to purchasing overpriced CDs and
tapes, that's the whole problem they have to
realize. If they want to get their customers back,
they should develop a competing system, otherwise
come up with a different, cheaper distribution system. P2P will not stop as long as entertainment
media (especially of the digital variety) is so
ridiculously overpriced. It will even flourish
as more people like Ms Rosen try to strangle it
to death with litigation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but back in WWI, there was an encoded telegraph sent by the Germans to the Mexicans which encouraged them to revolt against the U.S. so that they might distract the U.S. in order to help the Germans in their war on the European continent. The name given to this telegraph was the 'Zimmerman telegraph'. The British were able to crack the code and decypher the message, and thereby alert the Americans to the German plans. Seeing as though it took the Brits, to crack a coded telegram by Zimmerman to limit or stop a possible war on the U.S. continent, could not the same thing happen today? Could an ally of, or the U.S., help crack a Zimmerman code to help stop a (terrorist) war on the North American continent?.... It's just food for thought, but the paralells between the 2 stories are a little eye-opening...