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ipod related news

It’s been a while since I did any updates on the iPod market so here goes. Apple trademarks iPod’s design, applies for iPhone design mark – Engadget Now that Apple has the iPod design legally bound to them, next up is the iPhone. Watch out for all those lawsuits for the knockoffs available almost everywhere. [ READ MORE ]

As the world turns

Exec: NBC wants back on iTunes, anti-piracy measures | iLounge News Well all I can say is. “I told you so.” It is inevitable for media companies not to support iTunes or any other content distributor if they are bothered by the massive market share of iTunes. I’d prefer it that all content providers just [ READ MORE ]

Amazon to finally sell DRM free MP3 to the world

Amazon MP3 store to spread DRM-free love global in 2008 – Engadget In what could be the biggest threat the Apple iTunes store could face is this announcement by Amazon to be able to sell music anywhere in the world DRM free. But how anywhere is anywhere? One of the biggest flaws of the iTunes [ READ MORE ]

As the World Turns

NBC Universal wanted cut of Apple hardware sales Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I’ve been neglecting my regular posts here and I know I have to post on a lot of things. A cut of anyone’s hardware sales is ridiculous and I can probably guess how Apple reacted [ READ MORE ]

Happy Birthday iPod

It’s kinda hard to imagine that six years ago Apple went into the digital music player business which at the time was a perceived as late comer to the game. Now Six billion tunes and millions of iPods later including a phone, the iPod is the unprecedented leader of the digital music player market. From [ READ MORE ]

It still wont play on my iPod fool!

  • September 20th, 2007
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NBC to offer free “NBC Direct” download service, iTunes competitor – Engadget NBC counters iTunes in this round by offering their shows for free via their website which should eventually lead to a paid service in the future. What part does NBC doesn’t understand? TV is inherently free. The said “free” shows are only viewable [ READ MORE ]

Apple wants to slash TV show prices in half, aggresively drive iPod sales

99 cents per show – There apparently was more to NBC’s decision to pull its shows out of the iTunes Store than we were led to believe. Apple is reportedly pushing the concept of cutting the prices of TV shows to 99ยข.I must agree with Apple’s pricing strategy. It would match with a a lot [ READ MORE ]

Apple announces major updates to iPod family, cuts iPhone price

Apple today announced major updates to the iPod family at its “The Beat Goes On” special event in San Francisco. The iPod shuffle saw a refresh with new colors and packaging, an all-new iPod nano was introduced, as well as the iPod classic (which replaces the original “iPod” in the company’s lineup), and the all-new [ READ MORE ]

Rick Rubin: iPods will be obsolete

In a recent NY Times interview with music producer Rick Rubin as he predicts that iPods will be obsolete, he endorses the subscription model as used by Napster and other music rental services. MacNN also notes that David Geffen also sees the subscription model as the way to save the music industry. Hmmm, save the [ READ MORE ]

Universal to seek money for each iPod sold

And so it begins. Universal Music Group exec Doug Morris told the Reuters Media Summit that his company is interested in receiving a cut of the profits from each iPod sold. I know it’s been a really long while since I blogged so here it goes. No content maker should charge the very medium of [ READ MORE ]

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