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Current Topic: Macintosh

RE: Every Song you buy on iTunes...
Topic: Macintosh 11:45 pm EDT, Aug  3, 2004

Decius wrote:
] ... locks you in deeper. Want to buy a different portable music
] player next time you buy one? I hope you don't mind throwing
] away 5 years of songs you bought on iTunes, because they
] aren't going to work with anything else.

The record companies must have known this going in. It's all part of the deal. Think of it as built-in obsolescence ... the wholly digital follow-on to the migrations from vinyl to CD and from VHS to DVD.

Pure, unobstructed digital content is supremely dangerous to their long-standing business model because, among many reasons, it stands to eliminate the critical revenue stream generated by the periodic remonetization of the back catalog.

They advertise DRM as a near-term protector of retail sales levels, but it's equally important as a long-term protector of the business model. This part of the equation is not mentioned as often.

RE: Every Song you buy on iTunes...


Beholder, from Mesa Dynamics
Topic: Macintosh 2:54 pm EDT, May  1, 2004

Mesa Dynamics designs and develops desktop applications that showcase its innovative technologies for search engine data mining, digital asset repurposing and image processing.

Beholder allows you to quickly search for images on the web, whether you're using searching services such as Google or simply scanning web sites for images. Thumbnails are displayed with link details and a zoomed preview courtesy of our unique Prism Zoom technology.

Beholder, from Mesa Dynamics


Quicksilver
Topic: Macintosh 6:22 am EDT, Apr  9, 2004

Very cool. "A better mousetrap" is very apropos. Sure beats 'locate'.

Quicksilver is an evolving framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of personal data. Existing modules include a launcher, a clipboard recorder, and a shelf.

Rattle wrote:
This is a truly awesome launcher app for OSX. Using keywords you type in, it launches a dynamic menu for picking to launch apps, open documents, visit bookmarks, etc. It's that much less you have to take your hands off the keyboard.

This may be the latest must have app for OSX. I continue to be very pleased with the overall evolution of OSX as a workstation platform.

Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do

Quicksilver


TransLucy
Topic: Macintosh 1:56 am EST, Feb 22, 2004

Trans Lucy is a radical new way to watch DVDs on your computer. Unlike other computer DVD players, Trans Lucy lets you float the video display above your other applications.

Trans Lucy goes one step further by allowing you to make the video display translucent so you can still see and work with your documents that are "behind-the-scenes."

Note: This software requires Panther and Quartz Extreme.

TransLucy


Crash Different
Topic: Macintosh 12:08 am EST, Jan  9, 2004

Funny.

Crash Different


Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview
Topic: Macintosh 1:24 am EST, Dec 10, 2003

He changed the computer industry. Now he's after the music business.

"The world needs more smart editorial these days."

"We told the record companies the music subscription services they were pushing were going to fail. People don't want to buy their music as a subscription."

"[Getting music online] is such a compelling way to get music. It's instant gratification."

"But who knows? This is all new territory."

Somebody needs to tell Steve about MemeStreams.

I'm not a professional futurist, but I would offer that, historically, "because we've always done it that way" is an unsuccessful long-term strategy.

I don't know if companies can turn a profit on a music subscription service, but I must say that they can be very compelling for the end user.

I count myself among the critics that have been won over by Rhapsody.

Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview


 
 
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