“Wednesday’s Apple announcements included some significant market advances, particularly the iPod Touch and the iTunes Wi-Fi Store. The new lineup of devices should keep the company clearly in the digital-media drivers’ seat through the end of 2007, at least, and the pricing strategy is rock-solid,” Matt Rosoff blogs for CNET.
Rosoff writes, “Even so, a few things that Apple didn’t announce might leave some room for other innovators.”
Rosoff’s list of what Apple didn’t announce:
• Subscription store
• Wireless sync
• User interaction
• The Beatles
Full article here.
Subscriptions suck! You pay to much to listen to them a month and if you stop paying you lose all your music. It doesn’t work and that has been proven by all the iTunes competitors out there who have gone under. It costs twice as much too. First you pay to listen then you pay again to burn a CD then you pay again to sync the song to a player. What a fricken waste! Sync wirelessly, why?
Beatles, whatever. Interaction? Huh??
iTunes is great the way it is and that’s why it is number 1.
See, I like what MacMorsel says, that’s the only kind of subscription service that makes any sense, because you never really even pretend to own the music, you just stream it. It’s kinda like satellite radio except you pick exactly what streams to you. And if you decide you like a song enough to have it on your compy, then you can buy it. That makes sense. Other subscription services don’t.
What he did not announce is the VoIP he is planning in future versions of the iPOD touch, just add a speaker and the sky is the limit and all the carriers become obsolete.
I hate nearly all Beatles’ songs… most of them are so childish…
“Love, love me do. You know I love you. So ple-e-e-ease, love me too. Oh yeah, love me too.”
Or how about:
“She’s on a ticket to Ryde. She’s on a ticket to Ry-y-yde. She’s on a ticket to Ryde, and she don’t care.”
Another literary masterpiece:
“All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.”
OR:
“She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And with a love like that,
You know you should be glad.”
Funny, Shadowmac.
But I’m sure you know it is “Ticket To Ride”, about a German prostitute that had a permit to work, her ‘ticket to ride’….
MW:children
subscription service: it is stupid to put this in a list of what “innovators” would do. There are already subscription services. They are doing poorly. An interesting concept kept afloat by the content providers because it is a higher profit model and a guaranteed revenue stream. I’m sure they would love it if that was the only way music was sold. Some people love this kind of service, but it currently does not seem to be a large enough percentage of music buyers to be of consequence right now.
the Beattles: ugh. This is so “old model” thinking. The iTunes Store is not made or broken by the big names. Sure, it would be great for Beattles fans. But adding their catalog would just be one-time blip in sales.
user interaction: OMG!!!!! Myspace is huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Social networking!!!!!! While I do admit that this could be an interesting feature, it has more to do with easy file transfer (no more burning CDs for friends) than some sort of “interaction” akin to social networking. After all, if I’m in a room with someone, I typicaly do social networking by <<gasp>> talking with them.
Wireles sync: when this is faster than USB 2, sure. Until then, no thanks.