Archive for the 'iPod' Category
Flagging music industry seeks reincarnation as iPod upsell
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello March 19th, 2008 in Apple, Conjecture, Device, Digital Music, Digital downloading, Music Musings, commerce, deals, iPhone, iPod, iPod/iTunes.The once haughty recorded music industry has finally collapsed under the weight of its own greed and inefficiency. We can officially call the industry dead, not when the companies are shuttered (because a number of them will survive), but when their main business model is radically different. According to an article in todays Financial Times [...]
Suicide Watch: Universal Music Demands Customers Use P2P
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello July 2nd, 2007 in Apple, Digital Music, Foolishness, Universal Music, deals, file sharing, iPod, iPod/iTunes, mp3.Yesterday Big JG, the soup eater, posted a note about Universals Music’s mad dash to ends its tortured existence as the worlds largest purveyor of little plastics discs. In an act of classic Seppuku, Universal Music is reported to have told Apple that it was not going to renew its contract to sell music [...]
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While exploring GooTube I came across this humorous blueprint of how a company can be its own worse enemy. companies erase innovation through . Taken as a metaphor for the innovation process, it highlights a bunch of steps that get in the way of a great product. Even more amazing is this video was made by the good folks in Redmond.
Innovation is the hard to achieve because ultimately it requires a leap of faith. An emotional connection to an idea or ideal that is so strong it transcends the available information and may in fact contradict it. Its this leap of faith that management cant make, especially when their 401k’s, titles, and careers are on the line.
Business management is a pseudo-science that attempts to establish and maintaining order by institutionalizing processes that allow for control. Innovation is a pseudo-religion that resists control and requires the same faith in its existence that all gods have, since humans started creating them.
Steve Jobs Steals My Math and uses it to Smacks Detractors
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello February 6th, 2007 in Apple, Device, Digital Music, Free/Open Source, Gadgets, Steve Jobs, copyright, drm, iPod, iPod/iTunes.People have been belly-aching about Apple’s iTunes DRM for months, complaining that it’s somehow more restrictive then says Microsoft’s brown brick, the Zune. Steve (El Capitain) Job’s has been largely silent. Until now. Today Apple’s CEO came out swinging. In a letter posted on the Apple site, not only does he [...]
iTunes Proves DRM is Killing Music
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello December 12th, 2006 in Apple, Digital Music, Music Musings, Technology and Gadgets, TrendSpotting, drm, iPod, iPod/iTunes, mp3.Sensation headlines are great, El Reg’s mocking coverage is even better and Forrester Research is the best (for sensation headlines anyway). The Register is running a story with the somewhat overstated headline “iTunes Sales Collapsing“, based on some research put out by Forrester that seems to show that iTunes music is [...]
iPod’s Everywhere
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 15th, 2006 in Apple, Digital Music, Gadgets, Zune, iPod, iPod/iTunes, ibuzz.PaidContent has a post on the Apple teaming up with a number of airlines to have the iPod integrated into their in-flight entertainment options. The article points out that the timing matched the retail launch of MS’s Zune player and serve’s as a reminder of just how far MS will have to go before it [...]
iPod’s Everywhere
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 15th, 2006 in Apple, Digital Music, Gadgets, Zune, iPod, iPod/iTunes, ibuzz.PaidContent has a post on the Apple teaming up with a number of airlines to have the iPod integrated into their in-flight entertainment options. The article points out that the timing matched the retail launch of MS’s Zune player and serve’s as a reminder of just how far MS will have to go before it [...]
10 Reasons Zune will Flop
11 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 14th, 2006 in Apple, Conjecture, Device, Digital Music, Gadgets, Microsoft, Music Musings, Zune, iPod, iPod/iTunes, mp3, p2p.Today the Zune player from Windows will explode from the shelves of 30,000 stores around the country, to what I anticipate will be the collective yawn of a “me-to” device weary public.
Will Microsoft spend billions pushing the Zune player on the market? Yes.
Will they make a huge splash in the press? Yes.
Will they put out [...]
Microsoft Drops Price of Zune, Will Anyone Care?
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello September 28th, 2006 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Fun with PR, Humor, Microsoft, Zune, iPod.Today Microsoft announced that they will be releasing the Zune Player on Nov. 14th and dropping the price to $249.99. This after Microsoft was thrown into a tizzy when Apple announced that its next generation iPod would retail for $249 and speculation started to swirl about what the final price of the Zune would have [...]
Overstock.com Clearance Dept. Ready for Zune
3 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello September 18th, 2006 in Apple, Device, Digital Music, Gadgets, Microsoft, Zune, iPod, iPod/iTunes.I really wanted to title this post “Zune everyone will get the Urge for an iPod”, but thought better of it. What good would it do to make fun of the two companies I’d most like to work for in the future, if for no other reason then to get a bit of what their [...]
