Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Discuss Their New USC Academy Focused on Technology and Liberal Arts

[groovyd]

Significant apple shareholder doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're"


Also wakes up in the morning first thing to check on marumors for latest gossip


You make this so easy

Easy boy aluminum uses the most pathetic tactic of all forum trollers, pointing to a misspelled word as proof of 'you must be dumb because you can't even spell'... so original.

Should I review all of your previous posts for syntax? Oh wait, I don't even have to go back one post to find you misspelled MacRumors. marumors?

And yes I do enjoy reading MacRumors in the morning and from your history of posts I see you do also.

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nobody is interested in your burning pants except easy boy aluminum

 

[Patriot24]

Came for the story. Stayed for the domination of a significant shareholder a vaguely racist character assassination.

 

[Michael Scrip]

(hint... it's already paid off... - I guess it is how one interprets your statement. I've not read anything that suggests that the purchase has put them in financial ruins as you apparently have. $3 billion is a lot of money - there needs to be a solid return on that or some other concrete benefit for that purchase. One risk of having the cash they have is it can make one careless about expenditures - "whats $3billion given our reserves" mentality. I still don't understand the reason for the acquisition but perhaps that will became evident in the near future.

Yeah... I'm just gonna wait and see.

 

[Lictor]

I still don't understand the reason for the acquisition but perhaps that will became evident in the near future.

The reason is that the iTunes business model is currently dying. Executives at Apple know that in a few years that huge source of revenues will have dropped to almost nothing. So, if they want to survive, they need to enter the streaming market. But that market already has solid competitors (Spotify, Deezer) and doesn't generate a lot of revenues (because the major don't want to cut into their margin).
So, Apple needs to enter that market with a very solid product and a solid base, to grad market shares from competitors and force the majors into negotiation. Buying Dre is an attempt to protect their future source of revenues...

 

[Macist]

If Apple wanted to shake up the music industry again ignoring these kinds of people would be the way to go.

They should have launched their own family of labels and concentrated on the new and interesting, not corporate stodge.

 

[leenak]

Came for the story. Stayed for the domination of a significant shareholder a vaguely racist character assassination.

vaguely racist? I'd say blatant racism..

 

[mantan]

This pic shows a certain attitude/behavior that I don't like but I can't explain why, it's a gut feeling. The image/pose/look that these gentlemen have on this picture do not correspond with the image that Apple holds dearly, at least in my book.

This is obviously my interpretation and as always: interpretations are colored based on subjective opinions so I may be (and most likely am) totally off.

Is it because it's the rare picture you see of Apple with a black person in it? js]

Oh wait. Let me put it through the filter. That it has an element of 'urban culture.'

 

[Flight Plan]

He's a professor, that's why he's Dr. Dre.

If he's not a doctoral holder, then he should go get his PhD and make us all call him "Dr. Dr. Dre"

And because the public barely has the attention span of a horseradish, we would then shorten it to D3 or "Cubes".

 

[groovyd]

Came for the story. Stayed for the domination of a significant shareholder a vaguely racist character assassination.

vague indeed

 

[unplugme71]

What's with the lean? That looks so ridiculous.

 

[Apple Corps]

The reason is that the iTunes business model is currently dying. Executives at Apple know that in a few years that huge source of revenues will have dropped to almost nothing. So, if they want to survive, they need to enter the streaming market. But that market already has solid competitors (Spotify, Deezer) and doesn't generate a lot of revenues (because the major don't want to cut into their margin).
So, Apple needs to enter that market with a very solid product and a solid base, to grad market shares from competitors and force the majors into negotiation. Buying Dre is an attempt to protect their future source of revenues...

I understand the concept BUT Apple has streaming technology and Beats had (I believe) a very small subscriber base / footprint. What did Beats bring to the game for the purchase price?