m2cw - my 2 cents worth

steve jobs essay on DRM and music has stirred up quite some dust in the blogoshpere.

here’s an especially interesting article from someone in the music industry

more to come…

yesterday, steve jobs published a very rare open letter on his “thoughts on music”, which covered the issue of DRM in music.

here are three thoughts/predictions i’m having (incl. links where those have been inspired):

1. apple will start becoming its own label (inspired by this comment on macalope): with the beatles/apple fight out of the way and apple now owning the “apple” brand (and licensing it to the beatles for their apple records) it could really mean that apple will start becoming its own label and as such selling DRM-free music on itunes. this would be huge as it would be in direct competition to the big four (sony/bmg, emi, universal and warner).

2. apple might start selling drm-free indie label music soon: despite becoming its own label apple could start pushing the four big labels by selling unsigned artists (as outlined here. this way jobs would put his money where his mouth is…

3. if the labels follow jobs, he might have just killed podshow’s business case with podsafe music… (i’m really looking forward to adam curry’s thoughts on this)

only time will tell…

update: adam curry’s thoughts are very, very good and right on the money! (listen to DSC #541). he pretty much follows this argument

check out this page for some of the most amazing charts:Karl Hartig

unfortunately they all end before 2000! it would be cool to have some of them updated!

interesting post on productive meetings

interesting post about 10 reasons why user-experience is hot and features are not: new laws of digital technology