Super drive? The whole idea of apple not having an optical drive in laptop is to charge for the optical drive. They know how to milk the money
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Apple Declines Offer to Sell Adele's Upcoming Album '25' in Apple Stores
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Are you downloading the music or streaming? If you are downloading, then you still need a physical media to store it. If you are downloading, you are paying for it every time you download it either through your internet bill or cellular bill. So I think owning a CD is a much cheaper option and plus you get loss less audio.
Wow, thanks, man! If it hadn't been for your comment, I would have remained utterly baffled by this article. Didn't even think of physical stores and CDs. I thought "now why would Apple not sell the new Adele album through iTunes? Is it because of this?
What year is it? My cable connection isn't metered, and neither is my music streaming through the phone (TWC, and T-Mobile, respectively). And my "physical medium" is an old 30 GB iPod in the car.
Mostly stream from my Apple devices and I already pay for Internet on my phone and at home so it's no extra charge to stream it. Also if I chose to download it there isn't an extra charge since I already own the content.
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Technically, they do. (http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MD101LL/A&step=config#).
Except that Apple Retail Stores don't have a "checkout". You simply flag down an employee to ring up your purchase(s) for you.
It might help if you check out the record sales of her two previous Albums 19 and 21. Also check the number of Grammys she has.
Not a big deal at all she worked on a song with him and it did not make it to the album. This must happen all the time.
Well that chart seem to show that more Vinyl LP were sold in 2014 than the previous 20 years put together.People need to get real about this "Vinyl resurgence". Here's a graph that should help:
This is embarrassing. They're assuming that the Apple Store is like a supermarket where people find something else to buy at checkout.
Go make a deal with Macy's and JCPenney where this makes much more sense and people have the extra $15 to spare, and are actually looking for random gifts to buy.
Nothing wrong with CDs, I still buy them too, but it's a huge mistake trying to get a store like Apple's to stock it. Not only because of iTunes, but just because you're pretty much in and out of there most of the time.
Go make a deal with Macy's and JCPenney where this makes much more sense and people have the extra $15 to spare, and are actually looking for random gifts to buy.
Nothing wrong with CDs, I still buy them too, but it's a huge mistake trying to get a store like Apple's to stock it. Not only because of iTunes, but just because you're pretty much in and out of there most of the time.
How about an "Adele" co-branded Watch? It could come pre-loaded with her new album, and a custom watch face featuring her actual face. The box can be a custom "Watch|Adele" box with the CD incorporated into it as a bonus ... so no clutter in the store. And like the U2 iPod, Adele can pick the color combo.
I can't believe everyone on here who is surprised someone would by a CD. If you are any kind of audiophile then you know they sound much better than all this compressed digital music crap, which is fine when listening on an iPhone with some cheesy earbuds. If I am going to listen at home on my high end audio system then I would much rather hear a CD and I have a high quality CD player. Kids today are happy with all this low quality digital music, but for those of us who want a better listening experience a CD or even vinyl is a much better experience and until they offer higher quality digital music on a more universal basis I'll stick with these for music I want to hear. Second, I'm pretty sure Adele could carry this with no problem considering her popularity and past success.
This is where you miss the picture. They're planning to rerelease the CD. It will be the best CD since the CD. It's going to be awesome. Queue Jony Ive video.
Neither has Adele, so far. And I own her other albums in lossless audio. That's how I know.
This is too funny to skip....... am "Rolling..." over here. CD!?.... AND in the Apple Stores....[nowadays]??? Hahahaha.... These people need a reality check and the "bonus songs" usually suck.
yeah all her music sounds the same to me... but a sort of boring predictable same.
Yeah still don't understand what's that is about. I personally don't like her style in music!
Maybe Apple should bundle a CD for free with any Apple device that can read CDs. Let me think...
If you need to read CDs or DVDs (I do very, very, very occasionally), you can buy a third party USB CD/DVD drive for £20. Works just fine. Even if you have a Mac with a CD drive, throw it out, use the space for an SSD drive, and create your own Fusion drive!
That's only a minority of, well, "audiophile", compared to the majority of "music lovers" who quite like CD quality.
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Apple has stopped believing in physical media for years now. Adele and Team will have better luck stocking their CDs in the Starbucks sales counter shelves.
With "Music" languishing Apple needs this...maybe not at $30M but they need it. They should just include a downloadable version with the disc. I'm tired of people whining about anything that's on physical media. I'm tired of handing my device or ear buds over to someone because they want to hear something I have and that's the only way without them downloading it themselves. I'm tired of thinking about the possibility of us moving towards a real "Equilibrium" (the movie) type state where everyone lives in a barren room with four white walls and a digital device. Yeah, I don't really use physical anymore, but I might if more was available. I prefer the idea of physically owning things I pay for so no matter whether some company's database is breached or not I don't have to care about whether my purchase history is safe or whether my music/movies will be held under siege at a time when I want to them and I've paid for them.
A CD and a nice digital tube amplifier make for an exquisite audiophile experience for me.
Its all available on physical media, there is no more to make available. Just go to a store that actually sells it rather than wanting a single album sold in Apple stores.
No one is forcing you to buy digital media apart from you.