I agree. I get tired of hearing the (somewhat new) argument that Apple ruined the music industry. Music sales in general were absolutely tanking before the iTunes store and Apple solved a problem that no one else had been able to solve to that point: how to get people to buy music online. Today, many people I talk to would rather buy online than steal online because purchasing is easier. The caveat? Apple did it their way. Tough cookies. Change it if you don’t like it.
Music industry executives may well not like what’s happened to their industry, but is it really bullying from Apple? Or isn’t it simply that Apple does not do what the music executives wish? That Apple runs its music store its own way? What the music industry really doesn’t like is the whole idea of downloads. They want to go back to selling $18 discs. Pre-iTunes, “music downloads” were pretty much all free bootlegs.
John Gruber, NYT on The Tablet and Apple’s Relationship With Content Publishers
01/26/10
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