Comments on: iTunes Needs to Get Social http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Cash Prizes » DRM Is Sorta, Kinda, Maybe Dead http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219122 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:49:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219122 [...] iTunes Needs to Get Social [...]

]]> By: Alex http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219121 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:48:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219121 I think Last.fm (or iLike, etc.) integration would make a ton of sense for iTunes. Hell, iLike already sounds like an Apple product. I don’t think Apple should integrate with Facebook though. I enjoy both iTunes, and Facebook, but I don’t really want the world knowing everything I listen to. I don’t care much for Facebook’s privacy and rights policies, and I’d prefer if Apple stayed away from them. Apple really could take advantage of the fact that Last.fm/iLike are truly media oriented, and I bet they could get a much better revenue sharing deal with either of those sites than the Microsoft-backed Facebook.

]]> By: swag http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219120 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:37:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219120 iTunes needs to burn in hell for eternity. Any app so inefficient and piggish that it requires me to modify my service start-up configuration on my machine is something only the most evil minds at 1990s Microsoft could think up.

]]> By: Andre http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219119 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:29:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219119 I am a big fan of DoubleTwist – it’s what iTunes would be like if it wasn’t such a stiff program. Folks love sharing and interacting around the topic of music and this is never going to stop.

Technology companies that intend to provide mediums for music sharing must, if they seek sustainability, incorporate social interaction points. This is why I love the http://www.jamWee.com project

]]> By: Marcy http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219118 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:47:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219118 The idea of iTunes having a social media touch sounds good. But hopefully,they stick to sharing music and anything to do with it. I hope they don’t give in too much and put other things that are uncharacteristic of the brand. If they do, I don’t really see the point of having their own network.

]]> By: Jordan Golson http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219117 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:32:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219117 Apple has to be the one that does this, because of the closed iPhone ecosystem. An outside company is going to have an extremely hard time gaining any ground.

]]> By: Adam Wexler http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219116 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:05:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219116 iTunes absolutely needs a social element beyond the reviews. They have the foundation in place. They have dominant market share at the moment. They just need to model social interaction a la last.fm within the current service.

]]> By: Ouriel Ohayon http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219115 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:26:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219115 iTunes need to become social but not only for music (by the way Simplify Media is already helping in that direction) but also for Apps. This is why we created http://appsfire.com so iPhone users can easily share their favorite. If you want to give it a shot let me know

]]> By: Freddy http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219114 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:14:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219114 I don’t want that Farcebook crap anywhere near my Mac.

]]> By: sample032 http://gigaom.com/2009/07/28/itunes-needs-to-get-social/#comment-219113 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:06:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61047#comment-219113 “The Financial Times article quotes one exec saying that Cocktail is ‘all about recreating the heyday of the album when you would sit around with your friends looking at the artwork, while you listened to the music.’”

There are two problems with this. Music downloads have done far more to bring back the heyday of the *single*. Part of this is because of declining music quality, part due to decreased attention spans.

Which brings me to the second problem: friends, artwork, music, the 60s and 70s. There’s something missing from this picture that makes 2 hours of egregious music listening entertaining–something that also quite a heyday in the 60s and 70s.

“By creating a community around iTunes by integrating Twitter and Facebook, all three companies would create a huge splash in the music downloading business, and knock MySpace off its pedestal as the go-to site for music fans and artists.”

Only one company listed there actually makes a significant amount of money. Tying these products together would be neat, but I wouldn’t expect to see anyone other than iTunes make more money…which is only useful because people would buy bigger iPods–iTunes is practically a loss leader.

“(or not, in the case of some more embarrassing purchases)”

“Soulja boy off in this…”

Heh. Probably a good idea, there.

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