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[b]Goodbye itunes[/b]
[i][c=#BF0000]Goodbye itunes. In a way they are the victim of their own doing. They rose to prominence as a answer, legally to Napster, Limewire and gnuetella. In other words P2P --and the legalities of it made it possible.
But what killed itunes was subscription services, still P2P, but streaming PSP and no downloadable copy. PSP, streaming music, hurt them and their operation. How we listen to music--and if we buy it, has changed.
Let us say in a year you buy 10 LP on iTunes store at $15. $150 and they are yours. A 12 month subscription to Spotify DOES NOT cost that and you can listen to 700 Lp's if you wish! Yes we do not own them but even that is changing.
Last year vinyl sales were 18.5 millions units sold. Quite a turnaround from 2006 when vinyl was .9 Million in sales. People want to HOLD the LP--if they get it-in their hands- Not a digital copy.
So vinyl, subscriptions, even their own Apple store have hurt them. Google music, Amazon Prime, Pandora and more have taken over and Apple now wants apiece of that pie.
RIP itunes 2001-2019[/c][/i]
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/06/03/itunes-apple-wwdc-streaming-spotify.cnn-business
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729290123/itunes-death-is-all-about-how-we-listen-to-music-today
[i][c=#BF0000]Goodbye itunes. In a way they are the victim of their own doing. They rose to prominence as a answer, legally to Napster, Limewire and gnuetella. In other words P2P --and the legalities of it made it possible.
But what killed itunes was subscription services, still P2P, but streaming PSP and no downloadable copy. PSP, streaming music, hurt them and their operation. How we listen to music--and if we buy it, has changed.
Let us say in a year you buy 10 LP on iTunes store at $15. $150 and they are yours. A 12 month subscription to Spotify DOES NOT cost that and you can listen to 700 Lp's if you wish! Yes we do not own them but even that is changing.
Last year vinyl sales were 18.5 millions units sold. Quite a turnaround from 2006 when vinyl was .9 Million in sales. People want to HOLD the LP--if they get it-in their hands- Not a digital copy.
So vinyl, subscriptions, even their own Apple store have hurt them. Google music, Amazon Prime, Pandora and more have taken over and Apple now wants apiece of that pie.
RIP itunes 2001-2019[/c][/i]
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/06/03/itunes-apple-wwdc-streaming-spotify.cnn-business
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729290123/itunes-death-is-all-about-how-we-listen-to-music-today
