TK Junk Mail
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|  Jobs will negotiate and prices will go up
A whole lot of fire and smoke here in this msg thread about how Jobs is looking out for the consumer. Get real. Jobs is looking out for Apple profits(and himself). Eventually, when the contracts come up for renewal, he will make a deal. And the 99c download will be gone from the Itunes store. Count on it.
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yock
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| said by TK Junk Mail  :A whole lot of fire and smoke here in this msg thread about how Jobs is looking out for the consumer. Get real. Jobs is looking out for Apple profits(and himself). Eventually, when the contracts come up for renewal, he will make a deal. And the 99c download will be gone from the Itunes store. Count on it. I'm with you on this one. iTunes is the pillar of the entire Apple Macintosh business model right now. It's how you get music on your Mac for your iPod to put in your movies in Final Cut Pro.
As disappointed as I will be, it's still cheaper and more convenient than the record store.
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| Actually, it's a royal pain to get iTMS music into Final Cut Pro as it doesn't support the DRM'ed stuff. (You have to strip it, usually by making an iMovie project with the track and exporting the audio as aiff or something) At least that's how it is in FCP 4/HD (not on 5 yet, so I don't know if they've changed that) |
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cao1964
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said by TK Junk Mail :A whole lot of fire and smoke here in this msg thread about how Jobs is looking out for the consumer. Get real. Jobs is looking out for Apple profits(and himself). Eventually, when the contracts come up for renewal, he will make a deal. And the 99c download will be gone from the Itunes store. Count on it. I am with you, Apple has not choice, in the end they will either make a deal and give them more money from the IPOD sales to keep the price the same, hey I can see it from the music industry also, Greed is good, so for them more money means more toys, have to love it. And second are any of the record labels still actually run by US or are they foreign owned? No much different than the the medication problem we have in the states, wait till you need pills haha, then you will know real pain. |
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WirelessMajr
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| As I said in another thread, Apple isnt powerless in this equasion. The RIAA can pull the plug, and see their revenue from online sales drop like a stone in water.
The only online music store that I know of, that comes remotely close to ITMS, is Yahoo music (.99 track, or $5/mo and .79 track). And Yahoo doesnt have as big a library as ITMS does.
Secondly, the iPod is still the most popular mp3 player. And I doubt that the mass populous of iPod owners will switch to devices that support Janus or PlayForSure.
Users will just go back to pirating their music, or to doing my personal favorite: 5 people chip in $2-4 bucks for a CD, then we all rip it, then stick it on a shelf somewheres. |
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