Let me guess, it is complete garbage because none of your favorite artists are in there?
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New Limited-Edition 'Apple Music: 100 Best Albums' Book Costs $450
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Yeah, I find it cringe and out of touch. The front facing image being all about “Apple” and “Apple Music” and not the music itself makes it too corporate too.
It gives off vibes of a very expensive idol worship gadget to the corporate gods.
Are they? The cover does look high quality, but the next picture looks like just like a book?Would make a nice Christmas gift!Assouline books are gorgeous.
But I’m being put off by it being all Apple and their Apple Music service. Even if I have most things Apple and Apple Music is my daily music service companion.
My friend has a small business creating books for the retro gaming market. We both know how much all these special treatments cost - he has made books with slip cases, gold embossing, linen covers, fifth fluoro inks, even lenticular covers. His books are usually 300+ pages long and none of them cost more than $50. This is a total rip-off.
Aluminum?
I’d only buy one if it was made out of titanium.
And wasn’t filled with garbage.
I find it hard to understand why so many cheap people are coming to a site dedicated to Apple.
What is Apple doing? Seriously! They are more and more like the Apple before Steve Jobs returned and saved it. They have enough things to fix and work on but they found the time to do a crappy ugly book.
My point exactly. With that attitude you are on the wrong site. Nothing Apple makes is essential and you are not forced to buy it.
You folks are misdirecting the frustration.
It’s an Assouline book, they control the presentation and the price, not Apple.
These books are luxury products that are placed on coffee tables in lobbies and meant to look nice even after many people flip through them. The price is fine and the contents are generic enough to be of interest to a random visitor.
It’s an Assouline book, they control the presentation and the price, not Apple.
These books are luxury products that are placed on coffee tables in lobbies and meant to look nice even after many people flip through them. The price is fine and the contents are generic enough to be of interest to a random visitor.
I love seeing tech geeks continually get confused by a sector of society they've never heard of.
Apple nowadays unfortunately itself is waaay too much “anti-Apple” and out of touch. It seems like in 5 years perspective they would be in the same position as in 1990s if they continue this path.
If I was actually rich I would have invested in buying and collecting all the actual vinyl LPs, a decent player + acoustics and room treating instead of some wacky catalogue from Apple inc. with some absolutely tone deaf music tier. I mean, book doesn’t even offer those albums as a “free” addition to the book, QR codes would have been handy as well
Apple does this because they know they’ll be eager buyers for anything Apple, no matter the price. They have no shame.
I’m wealthy by most standards and I don’t consider this cheap by any means of hindsight. It’s idiotic.
As Apple Music is barely a thing, and most likely won't ever become one, that simply won't happen.
iTunes was a thing, a hugely popular and beloved cultural "institution" that, to a large extent, managed to bridge the gap between the analogue ways of buying music and the convenience of illegally pirating music.
Apple should have done this kind of book while iTunes was still the coolest way to buy and listen to music, and iTunes releases and charts had the World buzzing.
At the of iTunes popularity, Apple could have done this kind self-congratulatory book and easily sold it for $999.
This book, on the other hand, will never become a collector's item. And if it does then only because of how obscure and cringeworthy the concept is.
Also, doing these kinds of "this is good taste in music" types of lists doesn't fly in 2024: Mono-culture, like we in the TV and radio era, was definitively dead when streaming and social media took over. That's years ago now. Maybe a full decade, if you will.
Well, with the exception of this book which definitely sits at the top of Apple Fails: 100 Biggest Missteps in stores whenever.
That's actually not a mistake as the artist/label was spelling it both ways, with and without and "e" at the end, and never being consistent in the marketing for the album, the spelling used on official streaming platforms, album art, etc.You think they might have better proofreading — at least of the album titles — for that price.
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Apple Music: 100 Best Albums Book by Zane Lowe | ASSOULINE
Discover Apple Music: 100 Best Albums, a coffee table book curated by Zane Lowe, celebrating iconic records with exclusive insights and in-depth analysis.www.assouline.com
Some theorized that it was intentional, speaking to the way we gender words.
Personally, I think it's just a stupid mistake that led to a lot of discussion and news so the label/artist ran with it to keep people talking.
I think with Steve and Ive out this type of era is past. Apple isn't as regal/botique anymore, if that is the right word.
A big problem with any lists like these especially with music is it's a very personal thing. You could ask 500 people for their personal top 10 albums of all time and most of them are probably all going to give different answers.
Well, their “Designed By Apple In California” book goes for over $1k on eBay at times, so nothing would surprise me.
