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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.

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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

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01/26/10

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Huh. Is anyone outside of the music industry surprised by this at all?

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In short: top tracks that remain $0.99 moved up, tracks that jumped to $1.29 moved down.

John Gruber, iTunes Music Price Changes Hurt Some Rankings

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04/13/09

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Gruber is building off of Jason Fried’s post on why you shouldn’t copy 37signals or anyone else. I liked Jason’s post, but I think Gruber’s observation is really the main point. When you build something you love, you’ll not only make a great product, but you won’t really need to copy anyone else.

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The key ingredient I see in successful apps, Mac or web — and, really, in creative commercial endeavors of any kind — is that the creators are building something they themselves love. That’s what you should copy.

John Gruber, Copying the Wrong Thing

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02/21/09

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I love Gruber.

That is all.

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So Enderle either (a) believes that McDonald’s was founded by a man named Ronald McDonald; or (b) believes that Jobs’s role at Apple is equivalent to that of a fictional clown.

John Gruber, Enderle

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01/17/09

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Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions

Gruber, at his best.

01/05/09

To me, no one seems to have their pulse more accurately on the state of Apple than John Gruber and his Daring Fireball publication. I’m not saying he’ll be right on many of these predictions, but unlike most people in this space, his predictions are level-headed, well justified, and he calls a wild-card a wild-card. It’s a fun read, no matter what happens tomorrow.

I, for one, would love to see where Apple is going in the living room space (a la AppleTV), more than anything else.

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Lessons Learned by Twitterank

People Don’t Read.

11/12/08

So this thing called Twitterank spread like wildfire today. But one has to wonder if the hype was deserved. Most people did not notice a box on the signup form (checked by default) that indicated the service would post your “rank” to your account. And this isn’t exactly what I would call complex software. Sigh.

Oh, and two funny ones (favrd.com was abuzz!)

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This is silly. What about the auto industry is so special? If they’re too big to fail, then so is everything else.

I found this article viaDaring Fireball and Gruber’s quote is worth repeating. It sums up my own sentiments nicely:

“America seems to have an irrational soft spot for its auto industry. It’s a shame that these once-great companies have fallen so far, but the simple truth is that Ford and G.M. make ugly, inefficient cars that few people want to buy.”

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The stockholders, creditors, and employees of G.M. do not deserve to be spared the pain of the recession. The rest of America will be taking pay cuts, losing jobs, giving discounts to customers, etc. What is special about G.M. that they should be able to live as though 2008 never happened?

Philip Greenspun, Let G.M. go bankrupt

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11/08/08

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