"Maybe it would help if they were to offer to cancel those deals when they repair their main revenue model and the industry recovers, as I believe it will."
Yeah, and maybe some day the horse-drawn carriage will replace cars as our primary mode of transport.
The music industry is dying, and they alone bear responsibility for that death. The big labels have spent millions trying to cram this genie (digital music) back into the lamp when they should have rubbed it themselves. The revered revenue model upon which music sits was built during a time when artists had limited access to all the things needed to produce and distribute music. Currently, if an artist has an iMac and an internet connection, they can perform all the functions previously required of a label and a distributor. I see this is a way of streamlining the revenue model, not destroying it. Labels and distributors are being cut out of the picture in favor of a model centered around the artist, creating a meritocratic alternative to the current dysfunction we see today.
So...cry me a river. When you've outlived your usefulness, it's more dignified to shut up an die than to bitch till you expire.
By the way, I just added U2's discography to my bit torrent queue. It will find a nice cozy spot next to Metallica. Idiots.
I say they should give them the software on time, with some convenient "extra features." If you catch my drift. If the managers want to be assholes, recipcrocate.
I haven't heard anybody mention the word heat so far. If anyone has ever held their hand behind the radiator of a dual ppc machine...well it feels like a goddamn space heater. There was just no possible way ibm could keep upping those clock speeds without some sort of space-age cooling solution (or they could market the chip on the basis that it can be used to heat the average-sized hangar). You guys hit the nail on the head when you said it was all about laptops, but i think the subject of interoperability also comes into play. This new intel chip purportedly can dual boot tiger and winxp at blazing speeds. If they can pull it off, shit, i might even by my first mac.
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"Maybe it would help if they were to offer to cancel those deals when they repair their main revenue model and the industry recovers, as I believe it will." Yeah, and maybe some day the horse-drawn carriage will replace cars as our primary mode of transport. The music industry is dying, and they alone bear responsibility for that death. The big labels have spent millions trying to cram this genie (digital music) back into the lamp when they should have rubbed it themselves. The revered revenue model upon which music sits was built during a time when artists had limited access to all the things needed to produce and distribute music. Currently, if an artist has an iMac and an internet connection, they can perform all the functions previously required of a label and a distributor. I see this is a way of streamlining the revenue model, not destroying it. Labels and distributors are being cut out of the picture in favor of a model centered around the artist, creating a meritocratic alternative to the current dysfunction we see today. So...cry me a river. When you've outlived your usefulness, it's more dignified to shut up an die than to bitch till you expire. By the way, I just added U2's discography to my bit torrent queue. It will find a nice cozy spot next to Metallica. Idiots.
I say they should give them the software on time, with some convenient "extra features." If you catch my drift. If the managers want to be assholes, recipcrocate.
I haven't heard anybody mention the word heat so far. If anyone has ever held their hand behind the radiator of a dual ppc machine...well it feels like a goddamn space heater. There was just no possible way ibm could keep upping those clock speeds without some sort of space-age cooling solution (or they could market the chip on the basis that it can be used to heat the average-sized hangar). You guys hit the nail on the head when you said it was all about laptops, but i think the subject of interoperability also comes into play. This new intel chip purportedly can dual boot tiger and winxp at blazing speeds. If they can pull it off, shit, i might even by my first mac.