If Apple are throwing money around maybe they could make the base iPhone/iPod touch model have 64GB and go up from there.
You know, appeal to that hip, young music loving crowd...
You know, appeal to that hip, young music loving crowd...
If there is any truth to this rumor it must be that Apple wants the Beats subscription music service and the headphone hardware comes with the deal.
That being said wouldn't it be telling if Apple had to spend 3.2b to acquire Beats music? They are a much larger company with more resources and over a decade of experience dealing with record labels.
There is no reason why Apple should not be able to create it's own Spotify competitor.
I am having a problem seeing how Apple benefits from this deal. Ive can design better looking headphones. Beats will only wane in popularity as time goes by. I doubt the streaming service has technology that Apple badly needs that they are willing to grossly overpay for. From the article, this basically sums up how I feel, "Separately, we are not aware of any intellectual property within Beats that would drive the acquisition justification beyond the brand.".
Wow, Steve Jobs would have never let this happen.
Please guys stop the Friday morning CEOing!
Take a look at Jimmie Iovine's Wikipedia page, he is the Chairman and co-founder or Interscope Records and Chairman of Interscope Geffen A & M which is part of the Universal Music Group which is the largest music corporation in the World . Also scroll down to the complete Iovine discography.
Please guys stop the Friday morning CEOing!
Take a look at Jimmie Iovine's Wikipedia page, he is the Chairman and co-founder or Interscope Records and Chairman of Interscope Geffen A & M which is part of the Universal Music Group which is the largest music corporation in the World . Also scroll down to the complete Iovine discography.
Please guys stop the Friday morning CEOing!
Take a look at Jimmie Iovine's Wikipedia page, he is the Chairman and co-founder or Interscope Records and Chairman of Interscope Geffen A & M which is part of the Universal Music Group which is the largest music corporation in the World . Also scroll down to the complete Iovine discography.
Please guys stop the Friday morning CEOing!
Take a look at Jimmie Iovine's Wikipedia page, he is the Chairman and co-founder or Interscope Records and Chairman of Interscope Geffen A & M which is part of the Universal Music Group which is the largest music corporation in the World . Also scroll down to the complete Iovine discography.
Really why should a company worth billions of dollars acquire another company before consulting MR forum posters first?
Please guys stop the Friday morning CEOing!
Take a look at Jimmie Iovine's Wikipedia page, he is the Chairman and co-founder or Interscope Records and Chairman of Interscope Geffen A & M which is part of the Universal Music Group which is the largest music corporation in the World . Also scroll down to the complete Iovine discography.
Apple has a reputation in the industry. 1) a reputation for being loaded with cash and 2) a reputation for screwing labels over in negotiations. There's bad blood with itunes, which for a decade almost single-handedly decimated the music industry. Iovine has tons of contacts, sits on many boards, and has likely already negotiated the deals Apple wants.
We don't know what else is on the table. There might also be a highly desirable headphone patent at play. There were those rumours a while back about sensors of some kind becoming integrated with Apple headphones.