'This is an awful, awful pun. I love it.Maybe they should've approached Dell instead.
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Apple Declines Offer to Sell Adele's Upcoming Album '25' in Apple Stores
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You can hear the lossess quality on what speakers again? Where and what will you be listening this album on?
People need to get real about this "Vinyl resurgence". Here's a graph that should help:
Yes and a similar graph for CD or DVD media I expect in the future. That said there is still a place for low volume (albeit expensive) vinyl runs. There are still a bunch of audiophiles and good DJ's that still want to play vinyl unless you like talentless and over-payed laptop DJ's like Guetta, Deadmau5, or Calvin Harris. You know the type that do more prancing than playing. Anyway unless you lived when vinyl was the standard then I just don't think you get it. Digital is great for convenience but I'm not convinced with the LoFi quality and lack of top and bottom frequencies which are essentially cut off.
People need to get real about this "Vinyl resurgence". Here's a graph that should help:
Comparing vinyl pre-1990 is misleading. It was only competing against cassette and 8 track. Reel to reel never really made it to the "unclean masses".
It was around 1990 that CD's and players really became "affordable", and not just a rich stereophile item, like R2R. If you shave the graph off at 1990 and re-scale, it tells a very different story.
As said you can dislike a song... but there are different way of handling it, first she desperately tried to get him to write for her, then she disappears .... then when she comes back she act like she did not know what the song was about and trash it...
I can expect a professional artist to act professionally, if that means not putting a song on a cd, i understand AND i can even support the idea, but she did no act nicely (and not only to Phil Collins apparently).
Hasn't stopped her releasing the c*** she wrote....
It's not like she did not know what the song she co wrote with Phil was about....
Apple only sells one old MacBook Pro that still contains a CD drive. That fact, along with them having the iTunes store and Apple Music would make it very confusing if they started offering a CD in stores.
It's not about the whole audiophile. For me personally, I listen to music usually only when I'm doing something, at work or need to focus when working on some stuff, I need it to block out the noise and give me some tune that I enjoy listening to. I almost never listen to the lyrics. I will listen to anything as long as I like the tune. My wife sometime would ask why I would listen to certain singer, I simply told her I enjoy the tune that's all. So music quality really doesn't really matter much at this point.
I'm glad I can't stand Adele, because I'd be pissed if the only way I could get all the songs from an album would be to buy the physical disk.
I can't believe the marketing execs went to the company who is a leader in DIGITAL music distribution and asked them if they wanted to put physical media in their stores. Whoever decided that they were going to waste money creating a bunch of CDs for this album launch should be fired.
People's number one question will probably be: if I buy the CD, how easy is it for me to get on my phone? The answer is that it's not difficult but it's just annoying to expect customers to do that in 2015 with a brand new album when they can buy the album online and have the whole thing downloaded to their phone in about one minute.
People's number one question will probably be: if I buy the CD, how easy is it for me to get on my phone? The answer is that it's not difficult but it's just annoying to expect customers to do that in 2015 with a brand new album when they can buy the album online and have the whole thing downloaded to their phone in about one minute.
If they go the blu-ray way that's bundled with a digital code for redemption and download then yea. But that sounds like a headache and too much people to involve just to get that done.
I bet they would do it if Taylor Swift asked.
Nah, she's too smart to ask a dumb question like that.
Hello from the other side of 25? She sounds like 32 and looks late 30s, due to weight changes?
Video says 'sorry' but eyes say Disney's Ursula. Paints guy as over talkative, while she is simply overly successful? Oops sorry.
Her team trolled Apple for headlines. I prefer T Swift's approach: coming with useful input on Apple Music from musicians she helped unite.
Adele appears righteously independent, thou her song suggests she knows this is not the best path.
She pulled a Charles Barkley, gaining weight to lose it. She looks as before, but without Chuck's ability to see the humor and laugh with the crowd.
I wish her luck, hope she can make amends re Phil Collins comments. Didn't know about this, but it certainly fits her profile.
Great voice tho! Slight attitude adjustment and I could believe Apple would work with her to move mountains ... and sell Gold Rekaads!
We all put our pants on one leg at a time, Adele.
Video says 'sorry' but eyes say Disney's Ursula. Paints guy as over talkative, while she is simply overly successful? Oops sorry.
Her team trolled Apple for headlines. I prefer T Swift's approach: coming with useful input on Apple Music from musicians she helped unite.
Adele appears righteously independent, thou her song suggests she knows this is not the best path.
She pulled a Charles Barkley, gaining weight to lose it. She looks as before, but without Chuck's ability to see the humor and laugh with the crowd.
I wish her luck, hope she can make amends re Phil Collins comments. Didn't know about this, but it certainly fits her profile.
Great voice tho! Slight attitude adjustment and I could believe Apple would work with her to move mountains ... and sell Gold Rekaads!
We all put our pants on one leg at a time, Adele.
People need to get real about this "Vinyl resurgence". Here's a graph that should help:
Yes, but if you extrapolate the current trend, vinyl will rule the world in 2083.
One word: lossless. That is something Apple can't (or won't) offer over a digital service (either iTunes or Apple Music). I never bought CD most of my life since I grew up in the era that the iTunes Store was invented, however in the last few months I have. CDs hit a spot after about a year on Amazon where you can pickup a used, like new, copy for under $8 shipped. Those are the Deluxe editions too, something I don't see from iTunes for under $9.99. As they move further out, they get ever cheaper. For instance, My December by Kelly Clarkson, $9.99 from iTunes. I paid $4.50 (shipped) for a brand new, sealed copy from Amazon.
The difference in audio quality is huge, particularly when you're listening over a fully digital set up. Even listening through 3.5mm jacks I can hear a difference because I have very keen ears that pickup a lot of frequencys.
"Re-scaling the graph to make the lines look bigger
does not make the actual revenues larger."
-Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Hello Adele's agency. There will always be someone like you trying to roll in the deep pockets of Apple. Rumor has it that he (Cook) won't go for this.
Nothing like posting a chart from a website that exists because of digital sales ◔̯◔ How about a quick chart from when the uptick actually started friend:People need to get real about this "Vinyl resurgence". Here's a graph that should help:
I say she focuses more on Vinyl and hit a place like Urban Outfitter.
Really? Maybe it's an age thing. My younger siblings don't buy physical media these days (unless its console games), but I prefer it because I get to have a CD and also copy it to my iTunes library. It's pretty much win-win, and if you factor in a lower price, higher bitrate digital files it becomes win-win-win-win.