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Jan. 7th, 2008
Music I Likes
Jan. 7th, 2008 02:41 pmIf you had a +5 Blender of Awesome, and you threw in Gwen Stefani, Pink, and Fiona Apple and set it to "frappe" you would get Sia Furler. She's my new favorite female vocalist.
She's supposed to be in NYC this Wednesday:
Noon at Starbucks, Astor Place
4pm at Soho Apple
7pm at Virgin Mega, USQ
I am contemplating swooning at her from afar at the evening Union Square appearance...
She's supposed to be in NYC this Wednesday:
Noon at Starbucks, Astor Place
4pm at Soho Apple
7pm at Virgin Mega, USQ
I am contemplating swooning at her from afar at the evening Union Square appearance...
More Music
Jan. 7th, 2008 02:59 pmI recently joined the millions and millions of iPod carriers in NYC and the rest of the world. I bought an 80G iPod classic, and loaded it with all the music from my paltry music library.
When I first got the Macbook, I ripped all my CDs to iTunes, in preparation for the day I'd be getting the iPod; once I got into iTunes, I found that they had The Sarah Silverman Show in the store, and bought the whole season of it for 5 bucks. Now I carry it around with me on the iPod for ha-has, seeing as how my music's only about 9G.
I also downloaded some other videos from the Intarznets and carried those around with me to watch wherever I went... and found it to be a pretty viable way to watch content, better than I thought even with a screen much smaller than the PSP or iPod touch.
Bottom line: I am now buying digital music at a rate much, much faster than I have ever bought real world CDs. I've spent more on music downloads in the last couple weeks than I have in purchasing CDs over the entire last year. It's infinitely more convenient, and the iPod and iTunes make it all possible.
Now if only DVD and television content providers would catch the hell up and let me buy their stuff on iTunes, I'd be set.
When I first got the Macbook, I ripped all my CDs to iTunes, in preparation for the day I'd be getting the iPod; once I got into iTunes, I found that they had The Sarah Silverman Show in the store, and bought the whole season of it for 5 bucks. Now I carry it around with me on the iPod for ha-has, seeing as how my music's only about 9G.
I also downloaded some other videos from the Intarznets and carried those around with me to watch wherever I went... and found it to be a pretty viable way to watch content, better than I thought even with a screen much smaller than the PSP or iPod touch.
Bottom line: I am now buying digital music at a rate much, much faster than I have ever bought real world CDs. I've spent more on music downloads in the last couple weeks than I have in purchasing CDs over the entire last year. It's infinitely more convenient, and the iPod and iTunes make it all possible.
Now if only DVD and television content providers would catch the hell up and let me buy their stuff on iTunes, I'd be set.
Are We Witnessing History?
Jan. 7th, 2008 05:07 pmhttp://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/apple-close-to.html
Is the WGA strike pushing the majors into making these deals with Apple now, so they can crystallize their profit margins and determine what they can "afford" to give to the writers? Is Apple about to win the entire ballgame?
I saw win the ballgame because everyone knows that content is king. Who can possibly compete with Apple once they have the majority of the market available in a convenient delivery package?
Is the WGA strike pushing the majors into making these deals with Apple now, so they can crystallize their profit margins and determine what they can "afford" to give to the writers? Is Apple about to win the entire ballgame?
I saw win the ballgame because everyone knows that content is king. Who can possibly compete with Apple once they have the majority of the market available in a convenient delivery package?
Sketchtastic
Jan. 7th, 2008 08:12 pmI got to draw lovely Julia again last Saturday; the Dr. Sketchy theme was 300 befitting J's Grecian roots.
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More On Online Video
Jan. 7th, 2008 10:20 pmI hope I'm not boring people with this stuff... I'm think I'm fairly obsessed with it at the moment because I think really monumental things are happening.
Right now, we're looking at Disney and Fox teaming with Apple. According to the market shares listings at Wikipedia, this represents about 34% of the content provider market. NBC has missed the boat; they could have been the first on the wagon, but something tells me that the deal changed for them when Apple got Fox and captured content that was three times bigger than what NBC provided, and NBC became the small fish.
Rumors are flying that Sony, Time-Warner, CBS Viacom, and Lionsgate are all next on the wagon. I thought Sony was less likely to get on the wagon - but apparently Apple is on the blu-ray board of directors. And Sony is giving up DRM... these things make me think that Sony is just about ready to go iTunes. Methinks they did the math and figured that spending the money necessary to catch up to Apple plus the amount of money they'd get from competing with iTunes wasn't a profit margin worth having. Apple's done the work, why not just let them handle everything and let the money roll in? Sony's getting beat to hell in every other category; all they need to do is make the PSP compatible with iTunes, and they've got a viable portable video player that competes with the iPod touch.
If Sony goes iTunes, Apple would deliver 54.8% of the market. How would Time-Warner and CBS Viacom compete with that on their own, when they only have 14.9 and 11 percent of it respectively?
Note also that Disney and Fox are on the blu-ray board. Time-Warner dropped HD DVD and went to blu-ray... Paramount is also poised to move in that direction. Are these all indications that these studios are moving to iTunes and FairPlay delivery? There also happen to be three times more blu-ray players than HD DVD players out in the wild. NBC and CBS are the only ones still supporting HD DVD.
If Time-Warner is going to iTunes, that's 70% of the market. Game over for HD DVD and Microsoft. Probably also game over for Netflix and TiVo, and Amazon and Blockbuster. iTunes will deliver rentals at the same rates and cost as regular cable set top boxes... guess I need to start looking at the cable providers now, because it looks like the real fight is going to be Apple versus every cable TV provider, with the battleground being the set top box.
Right now, we're looking at Disney and Fox teaming with Apple. According to the market shares listings at Wikipedia, this represents about 34% of the content provider market. NBC has missed the boat; they could have been the first on the wagon, but something tells me that the deal changed for them when Apple got Fox and captured content that was three times bigger than what NBC provided, and NBC became the small fish.
Rumors are flying that Sony, Time-Warner, CBS Viacom, and Lionsgate are all next on the wagon. I thought Sony was less likely to get on the wagon - but apparently Apple is on the blu-ray board of directors. And Sony is giving up DRM... these things make me think that Sony is just about ready to go iTunes. Methinks they did the math and figured that spending the money necessary to catch up to Apple plus the amount of money they'd get from competing with iTunes wasn't a profit margin worth having. Apple's done the work, why not just let them handle everything and let the money roll in? Sony's getting beat to hell in every other category; all they need to do is make the PSP compatible with iTunes, and they've got a viable portable video player that competes with the iPod touch.
If Sony goes iTunes, Apple would deliver 54.8% of the market. How would Time-Warner and CBS Viacom compete with that on their own, when they only have 14.9 and 11 percent of it respectively?
Note also that Disney and Fox are on the blu-ray board. Time-Warner dropped HD DVD and went to blu-ray... Paramount is also poised to move in that direction. Are these all indications that these studios are moving to iTunes and FairPlay delivery? There also happen to be three times more blu-ray players than HD DVD players out in the wild. NBC and CBS are the only ones still supporting HD DVD.
If Time-Warner is going to iTunes, that's 70% of the market. Game over for HD DVD and Microsoft. Probably also game over for Netflix and TiVo, and Amazon and Blockbuster. iTunes will deliver rentals at the same rates and cost as regular cable set top boxes... guess I need to start looking at the cable providers now, because it looks like the real fight is going to be Apple versus every cable TV provider, with the battleground being the set top box.