Comments on: The Apple Tablet & CMX http://www.newrockstarphilosophy.com/2009/08/the-apple-tablet-cmx/ Sun, 20 May 2012 19:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Krzysztof Wiszniewski http://www.newrockstarphilosophy.com/2009/08/the-apple-tablet-cmx/comment-page-1/#comment-602 Krzysztof Wiszniewski Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:16:59 +0000 http://newrockstarphilosophy.com/?p=3748#comment-602 I don't know... We'll see what happens. That Apple tablet thingummy might just give enough perception of value-added for people to embrace the format, especially if it gives better value-for-money than buying tracks separately (this will most likely happen if there are more than ten tracks in the bundle - remember that listening to all of them to decide which you like is also a cost). Apple has this strange way of making the impossible possible. The iTunes store had no way of working in a post-Napster world, with the more savvy file-sharers already moving to BitTorrent. It had DRM too, for most of its existence. So how come it is by far the most profitable source of digital music right now? (Even considering the fact, that what Apple is really selling are iPods.) I am by no means a Warilite and have no illusions about these formats magically saving the industry, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of a doubt. I don’t know… We’ll see what happens. That Apple tablet thingummy might just give enough perception of value-added for people to embrace the format, especially if it gives better value-for-money than buying tracks separately (this will most likely happen if there are more than ten tracks in the bundle – remember that listening to all of them to decide which you like is also a cost).

Apple has this strange way of making the impossible possible. The iTunes store had no way of working in a post-Napster world, with the more savvy file-sharers already moving to BitTorrent. It had DRM too, for most of its existence. So how come it is by far the most profitable source of digital music right now? (Even considering the fact, that what Apple is really selling are iPods.)

I am by no means a Warilite and have no illusions about these formats magically saving the industry, but I’m willing to give them the benefit of a doubt.

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