Eric Herz called me freaking out, how do you find the rental movies at the iTunes Store? Then the blogs picked up the story.  There aren’t many movies available for rental, and it’s almost impossible to find all of them at the iTunes Store.  Does Jobs not have a complete, easily accessible list of rentals […]

If it’s all about money, then how come Universal can’t come to an agreement to participate in Pepsi’s Amazon music giveaway?  Could it be that the Universal brass are just too prickly (or just plain pricks) and that they’re the ones holding back the future, they’re the ones who are mercurial, not Steve Jobs? Did […]

Can you buy shares in a company when everybody knows the inside dope, that the corporation is firing on all twelve cylinders, that it is a fountain of innovative products? Yes. I remember my old friend Robert, buying Disney stock after the company issued a stellar earnings report. Didn’t he want to wait for the […]

Would this be a hit in an Amazon.com commercial? More importantly, would John Mellencamp have sold a SHITLOAD more records if his song had been featured in an APPLE ad instead of one for Chevy? Once again, we don’t have a piracy problem in the music business, we’ve got an EXPOSURE problem. Leslie Feist’s album […]