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This goes to the heart of why it took Steve Jobs...
... to come up with a way to make online music distribution profitable, convince the RIAA types to go along, and still make it sellable to the end-user. Everyone else has either been copying Steve's model (perhaps with a slight price difference) or failing.

Why Steve Jobs? Because of all of the visionaries on all three sides of the issue (computer industry, entertainment industry, and end-users), only Steve IS on all three sides: as CEO of Apple, he's one of the chief visionaries of the computer industry. As such, he understands the desire of computer makers to offer the most power to their users. As CEO of Pixar, he's one of the chief visionaries of the entertainment industry, and as such, he understands the desire of the entertainment industry mogels to protect their copyrights (his own movies being among the most-pirated out there). Finally, he retains at least some of the geeky computer user that he was a few decades ago. Only he could see the complex issues from all three sides, and come up with a compromise that would work and be acceptable to all three sides (of course, the extremists on any side will always reject any compromise, however reasonable).
Posted by: Joel R   Posted on: 11/03/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I've known how to enable the iTunes plugin for...  Letophoro | 11/02/04
What Do You Expect?  crescentdave | 11/02/04
Yet ANOTHER reason why I won't be buying an iPod  d_jedi | 11/02/04
Cost them in market share? When? Real Soon Now?  OldeTimeGeek | 11/03/04
I think it is really funny...  Patrick Jones | 11/03/04
Short term "fix" for what's not broken for the consumer  FilledOut | 11/03/04
Can I go back to iTunes 4.6?  deepsnow | 11/03/04
They can shove the IPOD up their A$$  Protector | 11/03/04
Not getting it  ndelc | 11/03/04
Even if so..  d_jedi | 11/03/04
Count on it  ndelc | 11/03/04
Do you have anything to back that up?  voska | 11/03/04
Re: Do you have anything to back that up?  ndelc | 11/03/04
No Prob, just curios (NT)  voska | 11/03/04
And ppl can still brand it rather 'MS' of them  FilledOut | 11/04/04
Honestly I don't care if apple.....  Protector | 11/03/04
This goes to the heart of why it took Steve Jobs...  Joel R | 11/03/04
As an Ipod owner  marmocida | 11/04/04
not buying it  ndelc | 11/04/04
Ways to Move Your Music  ndelc | 11/04/04
Apple ITunes  doc_cotton | 11/04/04
sorry for that,  vici | 11/10/04

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