Archive for the 'Apple' Category


Apple Music’s Per Stream Payment

“Appleā€™s coziness with musicians, which it facilitates in part by paying a higher royalty rate per stream than Spotify, has always been crucial to its brand” From: “Why Zane Lowe and Apple Music are betting on live radio in an on-demand era” “Los Angeles Times”: https://shorturl.at/C1kEJ Makes me crazy when the mainstream media gets it […]

The Apple Presentation

Instant hearing aids. That’s the big breakthrough announced by Apple today. But everybody wants to know about the new iPhones. Bottom line, you don’t need one…unless you do. Smartphones are now like cars. They keep introducing new models, the advertising is overwhelming, but you’re only in the market every few years (obviously longer for automobiles). […]

Twitter/X

This is what unregulated free speech looks like. Unusable. What did we lose with Steve Jobs? Simple user interfaces, a reduction in complication, leaving the past behind to go into the future. And with the loss of Twitter, we’ve given up instant news. Used to be if you had a question about what was happening, […]

Apple Antitrust/Streaming Future-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday March 23rd to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz