I love everyone on this thread explaining "how the music industry works" or "you don't know how it works". LOL. That's the problem. The "music industry" worked itself into Apple owning them. Iovine and his ilk bring you such innovations as "platform exclusives" and "segmented markets". Sure, he has street cred in the industry and is an amazing sound engineer. However, the music industry as an "industry" self destructed with all their greed and ridiculous business practices. Why let him do that to Apple's platform?
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Jimmy Iovine Allegedly Planning to Leave Apple in August [Updated]
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Oooh sure.
4yrs, and you’re saying you’re not surprised? Lest that so many forget:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...epticism-but-jimmy-iovine-may-be-key.1733090/
Seems that Jobs, Cook, Cue, the old and more recent board members felt it was a good deal all around.
Remember ignorance is always hindsight and bliss after a long time and things change. Not all music channels suit everyone but to knock someone with the expertise, experience and savvy to build up a business and sell it at 3.1 billion to Apple is no joke to snuff at considering the long history of talks and approvals over such a long spanse. Show the guy a little more respect, if not then where is your $3billion business that Apple wants to purchase and hire you on as an employee? Hmm.
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Seems like you’re wrong about Apple not needing Beats to get into the headphone business.
Source: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...epticism-but-jimmy-iovine-may-be-key.1733090/
AirPods & Beats X most likely spawned from his acquisition. Not the design but audio tuning is quite very possible because by default iTunes, music app in iOS devices are tuned neutrally. Noise reduction maybe something Apple learned as well and implemented in Beats Wireless Studio 3. We’ll never know.
I have yet to jump on the music streaming bandwagon. I still get all my music either on CDs, or iPod Classic if I'm on the road, or on my PC hardrive at home. I've considered getting it if I traveled more, but my concern is internet can be spotty on the roadways. Perhaps subscribe to satellite radio like Sirius-XMThat's really bad! You only leave a company when you are unhappy. Maybe not a very nice culture there after all! So what have Apple got from their 3Billion if Jimmy leaves? Crappy Beats headphones that were OK in 2011 before they fell to pieces? Maybe they learnt how to produce the AirPods. Kind of shows how much the money industry changes and how what and who was influential 10 years ago most certainly is not today.
It will be very interesting to see what the music market is like in 5 years time - will music streaming services burnt each other out? Will we go back to downloading and keeping music? I do
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Apple Music exec Jimmy Iovine, who works alongside Dr. Dre, Eddy Cue, Robert Kondrk, Trent Reznor and other prominent executives is planning to leave Apple in August, reports Billboard.
The rumor about Iovine's alleged departure from Apple first surfaced on music rumor site Hits Daily Double, but Billboard says its sources have confirmed the news. According to Billboard, Iovine's exit will be timed with the vesting of stock he acquired when first joining Apple.
Iovine joined the Apple Music team back in 2014, when Apple acquired Beats Electronics and the Beats Music streaming service, both of which were co-founded by Iovine and Dr. Dre. Iovine has had a long history with the company, though, first pitching a subscription music service to Steve Jobs in 2003.
Iovine does not have an official title at Apple, but he has been heavily involved in with Apple Music since its 2015 launch and has negotiated many of the streaming deals for the service.
Under Iovine's leadership, Apple music has seen strong growth since its debut, with the service now boasting more than 30 million subscribers.
Should Iovine leave Apple, it's not clear if he would be replaced, nor what his plans are after departing the company.
Bloomberg has confirmed that Jimmy Iovine is planning to leave Apple after he receives the final payout from the Beats Electronics acquisition.
Iovine is unlikely to stay on with the company even if he receives a new offer as his vision has "sometimes clashed" with the views of other executives at the company, including Eddy Cue.
Article Link: Jimmy Iovine Allegedly Planning to Leave Apple in August [Updated]
Apple Music exec Jimmy Iovine, who works alongside Dr. Dre, Eddy Cue, Robert Kondrk, Trent Reznor and other prominent executives is planning to leave Apple in August, reports Billboard.
The rumor about Iovine's alleged departure from Apple first surfaced on music rumor site Hits Daily Double, but Billboard says its sources have confirmed the news. According to Billboard, Iovine's exit will be timed with the vesting of stock he acquired when first joining Apple.
Iovine joined the Apple Music team back in 2014, when Apple acquired Beats Electronics and the Beats Music streaming service, both of which were co-founded by Iovine and Dr. Dre. Iovine has had a long history with the company, though, first pitching a subscription music service to Steve Jobs in 2003.
Iovine does not have an official title at Apple, but he has been heavily involved in with Apple Music since its 2015 launch and has negotiated many of the streaming deals for the service.
Under Iovine's leadership, Apple music has seen strong growth since its debut, with the service now boasting more than 30 million subscribers.
Should Iovine leave Apple, it's not clear if he would be replaced, nor what his plans are after departing the company.
Bloomberg has confirmed that Jimmy Iovine is planning to leave Apple after he receives the final payout from the Beats Electronics acquisition.
Iovine is unlikely to stay on with the company even if he receives a new offer as his vision has "sometimes clashed" with the views of other executives at the company, including Eddy Cue.
Article Link: Jimmy Iovine Allegedly Planning to Leave Apple in August [Updated]
I wonder if Jimmy was trying to move them in the right direction and Eddy’s non-music experience didn’t allow him to. It also seems to me maybe Jimmy wanted to have priority in getting Apple Music going and wasn’t prioritized. Whatever it is I hope they fix it soon cause going back to Spotify is more tempering each and every day.
Jimmy Iovine is even more powerful today then he was 10 years ago
That's really bad! You only leave a company when you are unhappy. Maybe not a very nice culture there after all! So what have Apple got from their 3Billion if Jimmy leaves? Crappy Beats headphones that were OK in 2011 before they fell to pieces? Maybe they learnt how to produce the AirPods. Kind of shows how much the money industry changes and how what and who was influential 10 years ago most certainly is not today.
It will be very interesting to see what the music market is like in 5 years time - will music streaming services burnt each other out? Will we go back to downloading and keeping music? I do
It’s time to retire the top selling headphones (by a huge margin) in the entire industry? Clearly you’re not a business man
Clearly you know nothing about jimmy who is very much “cool and down with the kidz”. Just stop embarrassing yourself.
Why did you make a whole story up?
Jimmy was pertinent to exclusivity deals like the Drake deal.
Jimmy was pertinent to exclusivity deals like the Drake deal.
I'm not making a whole story up. That's what I meant regarding credibility and making noise. "Credibility" is not only for consumers, you know? And I pretty much doubt that after his departure exclusivity deals will cease. He was just filling in the "pretty girl in the deals room" role for a while as part of the Beats acquisition. What story was made up?
No one wants to have to subscribe to 6 different services to get a full music catalog because of "exclusives". This is more of the tired old music industry strategy that made them fail.
Sure, in two words "Music exploration". Spotify music exploration is second to none, also allowing users to search for custom playlists. So if you play I don't know "Dungeons and Dragons", there will be a custom playlist made my some nerd out there. You want "Australia Day" music to play in the background, Bam! It exists. You want to listen to "Deans playlist" form supernatural, somebody has gone and made it. With Apple music, the exploration is horrible. The "professionally produced" playlists get updated every few months and there are few of them. Plus BeatsONE and most playlists are decidedly "ethnic" in its music variety. If I want a "running playlist" good luck finding anything that's not pop-rap. In short, if you don't like rap or its derivatives in pop music, you are out of luck. Spotifys music exploration is ground up, built by users of all kinds of music lovers, and music occasions. Becasue of the music exploration, smaller artists find it easier to get recognised on Spotify than Apple music.
