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By: Apple’s Announcement: The B-side of Steve Jobs: Apple «

Apple’s Announcement: The B-side of Steve Jobs: Apple « — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:50:17 +0000

[...] With music DRM, Apple’s long fight over song pricing ensured iTunes Store customers got DRM-free music long after other competitors. With Flash, Apple customers don’t get the same experience on [...]

By: Publishers Should Be Careful What They Wish For: Tech News «

Publishers Should Be Careful What They Wish For: Tech News « — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:00:46 +0000

[...] what Apple says they can make, and they price and offer their music in ways dictated by Apple. Even the attempt to offer flexible pricing for older music from the “back catalogue” took years of negotiations. And the company exercises a [...]

By: Lala to Go the Way of the Dodo

Lala to Go the Way of the Dodo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:49:40 +0000

[...] be acquired.) Any new agreement could involve a messy renegotiation in which Apple would make new concessions to the labels, as it did last year when variable pricing, DRM and bundling formats were in [...]

By: Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? – GigaOM

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? – GigaOM — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:34:54 +0000

[...] Rather, it’s the result of the same renegotiations between Apple and the major record labels that yielded DRM-free songs and flexible pricing early last year, a concession by Cupertino to make a gesture in [...]

By: Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? | AniChaos.com

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? | AniChaos.com — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:23:07 +0000

By: getfreeitunes

getfreeitunes — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:41:36 +0000

He’s right about nearly nobody caring, and that no normal humans know or care about DRM. I’m the geeky exception, having bought precious few songs from iTunes. On the other hand, I’ve bought over 1000 DRM-free songs from eMusic. As eMusic mostly features independent artists, this has the added benefit of supporting bands that most need the money.

Now that iTunes is going DRM-free, I’ll be able to pay a little more attention to the major labels again. Possibly to the detriment of my eMusic subscription.

By: Digipendent » Blog Archive » Inspirations Come From Outside The Music Industry: by Bruce Houghton

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:26:54 +0000

[...] to the music industry with skewering posts like YouTube, Music Labels: Stop Crying Over Spilt Milk, Why Apple’s iTunes Concessions Are a Double-Edged Sword and Why MySpace Music Is Likely to Fail, you don’t have to agreee, but you better pay [...]

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:29:46 +0000

Has anyone tried Spotify? Streamed music, legal and free. I’ve used it for a couple of months and have actually stopped using iTunes for consuming music. Rumor has it that Spotify now is working on a Mobile version of the app.

http://www.spotify.com

By: Joe Lamantia

Joe Lamantia — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:02:05 +0000

Introducing tiered pricing may be part of a longer term plan to better address international / emerging markets, with different price points, currencies, media consumption patterns, etc. Tiered pricing capability increases the flexibility of the iTunes platform quite a bit, making it more valuable.

As for the record labels who may or may not be happy with the results – well – we’re all more or less waiting for what’s next… The distribution based model they’ve relied on is pretty obviously dead…

By: tinyfrog

tinyfrog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:49:18 +0000

Not sure that I buy the argument about conditioning users to expect a lower price. Afterall, other media follows the same pattern: movies are expensive when you go to the movie theater, then they go to the video store, and then they go to TV (supported by ad revenue). There is a time-based decline in the “price” charged for a movie. That model is similar to the price-decline model proposed by the music industry. The model seems to work pretty well for movies.

By: Why Apple's iTunes Concessions Are a Double-Edged Sword (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM) » Apple Secrets

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:01:17 +0000

[...] Ingram / GigaOM:Why Apple’s iTunes Concessions Are a Double-Edged Sword — Apple’s announcements at Macworld may have lacked some of the flair and [...]

By: Why Apple's iTunes Concessions Are a Double-Edged Sword (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM) » Apple Secrets

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:01:17 +0000

[...] Ingram / GigaOM:Why Apple’s iTunes Concessions Are a Double-Edged Sword — Apple’s announcements at Macworld may have lacked some of the flair and [...]

By: The truth about DRM — Vad NU!

The truth about DRM — Vad NU! — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:16:31 +0000

[...] people, I know, will be pleased about this, personally I couldn’t care less. Why? Because, as Mathew Ingram of GigaOM states: The reality is that while DRM may be a big hobbyhorse for geeks, it isn’t really a big concern [...]

By: David Fanshaw

David Fanshaw — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:05:52 +0000

I think there will be a large growth in this marketplace for iTunes but there is an alternative.. and always will be.

David Fanshaw
http://www.v3Dates.com

By: Music Industry Catches Up to Variable Pricing … Kind of | Bottree Digital Services Blog

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:26:02 +0000

[...] Date posted: January 7, 2009. At this year’s MacWorld, Apple announced a number of changes to their file-sharing and music programs, the most important of which was the announcement that songs would vary in price. Original story here. [...]

By: biz news : Brooklyn Bodega

biz news : Brooklyn Bodega — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:07:24 +0000

[...] announces new pricing for iTunes There will no be a $0.69 and $1.29 option Nice piece from Gigaom on how this could be good and bad news for the majors Good news is they think they can gangster [...]