Apple/EMI Press Conference Coverage

[Bobthemonkey]

ENTIRE EMI catalog available on iTunes in May.

Entire, and that includes the Beatles

 

[motulist]

256 bit AAC! Awesome!

 

[chrisgeleven]

256kbps AAC, CONFIRMED BY JOBS!

 

[Willis]

256 AAC... sweet

 

[caipirina]

Ha ha ha ... Steve just said [selling stuff digitally]"it has been great for the musiclovers, the music companies and apple." ...

what about the artists ??? the guys who actually make that stuff ???

 

[chrisgeleven]

WORLDWIDE!

Also be able to upgrade entire library to higher qualtiy EMI songs for $0.30 apiece.

 

[macbwizard]

Steve is talking awfully fast.

 

[Dippo]

Upgrade current songs for 30 cents a song!!!

NICE!

 

[Willis]

Steve is really selling it. But then, thats what he's good at.

 

[macintel4me]

I can hear the screams of agony coming from the Redmond Zune camp.

 

[Project]

hes speaking fast because he is reading from his notes, lol

"Apple is reaching out to all of the other labels to other the same...."

Wow. Just wow.

 

[adamjc]

Steve is talking awfully fast.

Sounds like he is talking from a piece of paper! No Apple Keynote that's for sure!

 

[applemax]

I can feel a 'One more thing..." coming up

 

[jonnyblobby]

drm free was on emi site before webcast

not sure if anyone noticed this, but the emigroup website stated that the webcast was about drm free music BEFORE it began. i checked it about 30mins before it started and it had it on the homeb page http://www.emigroup.com/Default.htm

press release: http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm

 

[macintel4me]

Who da Man?!? Steve, you da man!!

 

[bignumbers]

AAC on other audio players?

How many other audio players, phones, etc, play unprotected AAC? Neither my Treo phone or my GPS (Garmin Nuvi 660) play it...

Converting to MP3 will introduce an element of quality loss.

(And yeah, Steve was reading from his notes like he learned of this five minutes ago.)

 

[psionic001]

heh, SJ said that they had sold 2.5million songs. Isn't it 2.5B

 

[Konradx]

"$1.29 for premium tracks (DRM-less)". No thanks. I could pay less for a cd, and have much higher quality lossless tracks instead of an increase to 256 kbps. A pass on this one.

 

[caipirina]

Beatles ...

'we are working on it' (first question and reply in the QA)

 

[Willis]

Sky News: "whens the beatles coming on?"
Steve Jobs: "I'd like to know that too"
EMI: SOON, working on it

 

[marco114]

The key to all this is that it's not MP3. It's AAC. I don't think all players play AAC versions, no?

 

[boer]

I for one am going to reward EMI for this. THIS is the way digital content business is done!

 

[Project]

Konradx the albums are the same price DRM or DRM free.

 

[retrospek]

I for one am going to reward EMI for this. THIS is the way digital content business is done!

I agree - we need to support EMI now that they have made this change..

 

[gnasher729]

By any reasonable defination, Apple has a monopoly on digital music players. Really.

That is pure and utter nonsense.

If a customer makes a decision which music player to buy, there is no reason whatsoever to take the market share of the product into account. If there is a better player or one that you personally like better with only one percent market share, there is no reason not to buy it. The iTunes software will let you rip all your CDs in a format that will work on that player. You can download any music that you want from the iTunes Store's competitors.

Apple also cannot put any pressure on the music industry, because their percentage in music sales is tiny, only a few percent. They are quite successful in the tiny niche of selling music downloads for iPods, but that is all.