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Will Music Sales Be Profitable for Record Companies in Ten Years?
Eventually high quality sound files, exceeding that of all other files, will be available.
It still wont save a dying business.
Will Music Sales Be Profitable for Record Companies in Ten Years?
30 years ago, most people had older cars and did work themselves, but now, most have newer cars.
30 years ago no-one had a personal computer with the ability to get digitised files of all types from out of a wire - now they do.
Owning a personal computer costs about $500 - $700 year, at least.
This money comes directly from Music, Movies, etc.
Music has always had a low priority - its just sound - and it is impossible for the Music Biz to suddenly give it 'added value' - if they coulda, they woulda.
Digitised files, easy sharing with friends, buy only the tracks you like, other things to spend your cash on.
Music is settling to its level, according to the wishes of consumers, and the competition for the consumer dollar.
Music, although I love it, just does NOT have the dollar value that the Music Biz thinks it does.
They have a business that is horribly anachronistic, but they wont accept that.
Too bad. Amazon, Apple, etc are the new music businesses - its only a matter of time before artists will go DIRECT to the digital file providers.
Then the game will be over for EMI, Universal, and the rest.
Why Is Dell Trying to Compete With the iPod?
The kind of people who might help Dell are EXACTLY the kind of people Dell would never employ.
Thats normal for most companies getting old - they wont/cant change.
What would I do with Dell?
Build a new Linux desktop that works - spend a TON of cash on some young code writers and try to embrace all that is NOT MSFT.
Apple's 3G iPhone Has Some Kinks to Resolve
Happy to hear that - I havent tried switching off 3G as yet - and to be fair, I dont really need 3G 99% of the time, so I will try it.
I didnt mean to 'damn with faint praise' - the iPhone is simply the finest piece of tech I have ever owned.
Apple's 3G iPhone Has Some Kinks to Resolve
Nokia etc? They DONT even come close.
WHY do you think it is selling so fast?
It really is that good.
Poorly written article btw - where is the evidence that Infineon's chip is 'sub par'?
The link merely goes to Engadgets page from April - ?
Tip: drink coffee, have shower, kiss wife and kids, THEN write article.
$1.2 Billion in iPhone Apps? Not Likely.
50 million in 2009? I think so.
RIM will suffer a little from this - why buy a Blackberry when for LESS cash you can have the exact same thing, only better, plus a host of great stuff, REAL web browsing, big screen, 16 gb of music, plus the Apps store.
The competition will do well if they can even be regarded as competition.
Right now, only the iPhone matters. The rest are nothing.
Will the New iPhone's Lower Price Triple Demand?
It doesnt have any competition and now its going to attack the crackberry.
Watch this thing grow and grow.
Microsoft: Determined To Be Touchable
The Surface? Are you crazy? You mean the Big Ass Table that costs $10,000 and is utterly USELESS?
If you think that Microsoft will ever get anything 'right', I have a bridge I would like to sell you......
Is User Apathy About Smartphones Becoming Apparent?
I agree that most dont give a damn about downloading apps - but then apps on the Nokia N95, for example, are like going to the dentist.
Smartphones will drop in price, and eventually, most phones will be loaded with features.
So most phones will be smartphones, and most people will have them, by default.
Thats my 0.10c.
What's Better: BlackBerry or iPhone?
The article was not researched, and is biased towards Blackberry.
These things happen - proper analysis based on research and testing it aint, but thats normal in the world of cheap blogs.
BUT then the 'author' decides to weigh in on the comments and tell us that we are all in the thrall of Steve Jobs!
Thats simply insulting, and considering the stance of the writer, is hypocritical.
There are many posts here from users of both products and the overwhelming 'bias' is towards Apple.
Point 2 is idiotic - anecdotal crap such as 'my friends brothers great-aunt dropped her iphone and it smashed into a thousand pieces killing 19 people' isnt effective unless you are talking to 85 year old women gossiping over coffee.
I love the comments from the 'text/email heavy' 'business' users. LOL! High comedy!
What a bunch of sad nitwits!
If 'business' users had their way, we would accept terrible products at grossly inflated prices that never changed or improved.
Sorry 'business' guys you are NOT the leaders or innovators that you think you are, and I doubt your typing skills are anything more than average.
Typing on a small keyboard has natural limitations that can NOT be fixed unless you have a full-sized keyboard or simply call instead of email or text.
Because of this, spelling and grammatical errors are forgiven and as long as the sense of the message is there; its good enough.
NO-ONE is writing complex emails, or their yearly report on a tiny keyboard - so quit with the lies.
The iPhone keyboard is at least as good as the blackberry one, but the other facilities of the iPhone make it a clear winner, unless you are unable to admit the facts.
Oh, and BTW, I have dropped my iPhone on at least 10 occasions, work in a tough environment (Marine), and it still keeps ticking. Use it to read emails from customers, and generally reply with 4 lines or less. If more explanation of a work contract is needed, I go crazy and PHONE them. Imagine that.
Met a guy in Sbux the other day with a huge dent across the back of his iPhone - it had stopped a puck at an NHL game! True story. It had not missed a beat. Starbucks, Ladner, BC, Canada. Yes we both had 'pirate' iPhones, as the idiot 'business' people at Rogers havent had the sense to get the iPhone yet.
Reason for all the anti-article comments here - article is simply inaccurate and based around the authors bias.
Try harder, Mr. Author.
The Computer (Manufacturing) Revolution Continues...
This might be the decline and fall of the USA unless we can stop this blatant abuse of humans.
Is there any manufacturing left in the USA? Are we so stupid and greedy that soon we wont be able to even mend a fence?
The USA needs to get back to doing what it always did best - making stuff!
Apple's Bountiful Revenues Are Bigger Than Ever
The upside is huge - thats for sure. The details? Who cares! Buy the stock, its going to $250 this year!
NO-ONE can make an iPhone killer. It would take years of research and
a great OS to do that. Who has that skill? ONLY APPLE.
What It Would Take To Fix Microsoft For Me
How can Ballmer remain in his job when Msoft loses billions through all their 'ventures' and somehow thats OK?
Wanted, Dead or Alive: The iPhone Killer
The iPhone is NOT a phone, its a mini-computer with the best OS there is.
Its never going to be a cheap mass-market device, but it will be almost impossible for any phone co. to make something as good.
I will never use another kind of phone - the iPhone is the ONE!
The Music Biz: Something Important Is On The Horizon
This prediction needs so many components to occur,not the least a large chunk of human behaviour change, and a total lack of profit for all this streaming.
No chance.