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Apple Declines Offer to Sell Adele's Upcoming Album '25' in Apple Stores
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I love you, Adele, and we know that 25 is going to sell MILLIONS upon MILLIONS, but this is pushing it...
Why is it a problem for you what other people do?
I still buy them a lot because they are often cheaper than iTunes and it only takes a minute to rip them to your library. CDs also have better audio quality and you can appreciate the cover artwork and inserts.
I don't mind if you restrict yourself to downloading though.
I don't care what other people do. It's like the vinyl period. It had its time, its passed and it's the same with CD's.
CD sales are still more popular than streaming. They are also more popular than digital downloads.
Their popularity is on the wane but there's still plenty of life left in them.
I was thinking how much rubbish Spotify is. No matter how you lay out the positive things about Spotify, Apple Music list of positive things are longer.
Actually no. It makes people think shes out of touch when all they should be focusing on is all the records she is breaking.
That's no good, it doesn't work with my iPods.
Yea man it doesn't work with my iPod classic I use in my car. So I had to get an old iPhone with 30pin connector to use Apple Music in my car.
I tried Spotify on multiple occasions and had to go back to iTunes and then Apple Music....
Aye - I'm not into lugging CD's around with me, but there's always the option of ripping to lossless or high-bitrate AAC to your computer and then either copy them to a portable device, or use iTunes Match to access them on the go (iTunes Match is over 5x cheaper than Apple Music).
My point is CDs are still a viable option, even in 2015. And as Jobs once said "People love to own their music" - myself included.
Thats not a case for Apple distributing them. At most places they are loss leaders. There isnt a business case for cds at b&ms
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Well, maybe she feels that if someone purchases the physical CD they can upload it to iTunes and "guess what" they own it rather then just borrowing it from the music streaming company. There is something about going back and looking at a physical ownership of something one pays for. But hey, that is just one person's opinion.
I wasn't asking for Apple to distribute them, just reminding some people that they aren't dead yet.
Impossible. I refuse to be live that in this day and age people are still buying cd's more than digital music. And don't tell me it's the quality of sound they're after because most people won't spend decent money on a sound system to actually hear the difference in a higher quality bitrate. When I spend a little money on B&W speakers my friends look at me like I'm crazy.
When Steve said own, he was referring to buying from the iTunes Store of course, not physical media.
I heard Tower Records is interested in making a deal with her.
Digital overtook CD sales this year, but that doesn't count for the 2nd hand CD market - which is absolutely huge, by the way, so CD sales are still ahead.
this is very laughable, however i will say that i'm disappointed that her new album doesn't have a deluxe version with the 3 extra tracks from target, that is BS, and it doesn't even look like there is any album booklet or anything on itunes, just the 11 tracks.
