Archive for the 'Apple' Category


More Copy Protection

Who has more power, the major labels or Apple Computer? Bottom line, is Apple going to play nice with Sony BMG, are they going to employ/adhere to the copy protection scheme the record label is now using to encrypt its discs. The backlash is just beginning. Now Amazon, which doesn’t sell a whole hell of […]

Jobs’ Speech

I knew Steve Jobs had eclipsed the technology sphere when referencing the speech below I learned my psychiatrist was intimately familiar with all the details of Steve’s life, when I seem to be educating him every session on the difference between WMA and MP3 and not long ago he thought Apple Computer was on the […]

The Switch To Intel

It’s about tomorrow. Could Apple Computer be any hotter?  Shouldn’t it scale down development and return value to its shareholders?  Isn’t that the goal of a corporation, to deliver for shareholders TODAY? No, the goal of a corporation is to deliver value for shareholders LONG TERM! Dick Parsons didn’t believe in the music business.  Bertelsmann […]

Podcasting

Holy FUCK!  Did you watch Steve Jobs’ presentation at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference?? It’s 1981 all over again.  MTV was seen as a sideshow.  A marginal effort reaching few homes that wouldn’t impact the mainstream music business. But that thesis was WRONG!  MTV REVOLUTIONIZED the music business.  But in order to play, you had to […]