Apple to Sell 37 Million iPods 2005?

[lolex]

Lol.... you've got some points right.

Turning to Microsoft may be mostly the scenario would happen, however,
What price they're to set is the match point of the game.

With the 1st recordable domestic device announced , the bomb was lited , n internet favours the bomb to burn faster, I believes this is not a matter could be solved easily insight.

However , Apple would be the ultimate survivor even encountered with the bombing, allowed no clone vendor , licensed no software seller,hence Apple winned the copyright game.

People come to an Apple's product will love n buy it intuitively, softwares for free, this is the key to win .

Always , Jobs holds little leverage , he founded Pixar, he could produces the best pictures , why not to produce the best music tunes for itself, who know what would accomplishs when genius come together like early Apple years. So Itune is not alone then.

 

[Maestro64]

So songs should cost the same in 2005 as they did when 45's were taken of the market (1975?)

While we are at it I think we should pay the same for gas today as we did 30 years ago.

On the song thing, if you look at the cost to produce a 45 and the cost to produce and distribute a mp3, the music companies make far more profits than they ever did with a 45, so why not pay less from a comsumer stand point. Hey I do not fault the Record lables for trying to get every dollar they can, but then again I am invested in Apple not Sony or EMC, and dinosaurs must die.

On the gas thing, you are paying less today for a gallon of gas then in the 70's if you take in account inflation and other economic factors. This is because there is competition for your gas dollars and the huge improvements in the refining and distrubiton of gas.

 

[Maestro64]

Sure, iPods don't play WMV, but what if Microsoft starts suing Apple, saying as to how Apple has a "monopoly" in the music player industry, and is "exploiting this monopoly" to gain an "unfair leverage" in the music sales market?

Just remember on thing, you do not have to buy your music from ITMS to use it on your iPod, you can always buy a CD and rip it yourself and put it on your iPod. I think this is something people keep forgetting. All the songs I have in iTunes came from my CD collection. why buy a DRM version of what I already own. Remember as long as you have a choice and you do there is no monolopy.

 

[Maestro64]

... and so do musicians when they sign up with a record company (and get into the iTMS).

This use to be true, musician need record lables to get their product to market. Today this is no longer true, this is the reason the record lables are figthing so hard to maintain control. Today musicians can product their own music in their basement using apple software or hire an independent studio and then they can easily convert it mp3 and market it directly to us.

The record industry today are signing artists to longer and longer contract because the realize once the group has name recognition they no longer need the record lable to get their product to market. In the past artist would get a 1 or 2 yr contract with 1 or 2 records deals, today they are more.

 

[snowmoon]

iTunes only deals with labels so they are not dealing with all the musicians directly. I don't see anything wrong with this since you can go from Garage to iTunes for less than $100 and keep your copyrights.

http://cdbaby.net/dd

http://www.macnn.com/news/20271

 

[Maestro64]

iTunes only deals with labels so they are not dealing with all the musicians directly. I don't see anything wrong with this since you can go from Garage to iTunes for less than $100 and keep your copyrights.

http://cdbaby.net/dd

http://www.macnn.com/news/20271

This is what is great about the american enterprise system, build a better mouse trap and people will buy it. Just shows you how stupid and non-technical the record labels are. Yeah the put a clause in ITMS contract that said Apple must not deal directly with musicians so some enterprising person makes themself a record label giving musicians direct access to ITMS for a small fee.

 

[ruffas]

Apple's sales have slipped a little on iPod and the nano and the 'video' have helped bring them back on track but I still fell that the clamping down on URLs with the word iPod in is going to cause a problem.