{"id":165,"date":"2007-02-07T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/wp_en\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/02\/07\/a-couple-of-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T05:59:19","slug":"a-couple-of-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/2007\/02\/07\/a-couple-of-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"a couple of thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday, steve jobs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughtsonmusic\/\">published a very rare open letter on his &#8220;thoughts on music&#8221;<\/a>, which covered the issue of DRM in music.<\/p>\n<p>here are three thoughts\/predictions i&#8217;m having (incl. links where those have been inspired):<\/p>\n<p>1. apple will start becoming its own label (inspired by this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macalope.com\/?p=166#comment-5536\">comment<\/a> on macalope): with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2007\/02\/05apple.html\">beatles\/apple fight<\/a> out of the way and apple now owning the &#8220;apple&#8221; 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). <\/p>\n<p>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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wired.com\/~r\/CultOfMac\/~3\/87503178\/emusic_sells_dr.html\">as outlined here<\/a>. this way jobs would put his money where his mouth is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strike>3. if the labels follow jobs, he might have just killed podshow&#8217;s business case with <a href=\"http:\/\/music.podshow.com\/\">podsafe music<\/a>&#8230; <\/strike> (i&#8217;m really looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curry.com\/\">adam curry&#8217;s<\/a> thoughts on this) <\/p>\n<p>only time will tell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>update: adam curry&#8217;s thoughts are very, very good and right on the money! <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.podshow.com\/\">(listen to DSC #541)<\/a>. he pretty much follows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilounge.com\/index.php\/articles\/comments\/3-ways-the-beatles-may-change-ipods-and-apple\/\">this argument<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday, steve jobs published a very rare open letter on his &#8220;thoughts on music&#8221;, which covered the issue of DRM in music. here are three thoughts\/predictions i&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-general","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wibi.homeip.net\/hub\/m2cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}