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Comment Music/money (Score 1) 579

Two points I have not seen here: 1. There is still no "business model" for making money off iTunes! These very pages reported Steve Job's lament that iTunes is basically a loss-leader to sell iPods and iMacs. So before you people go crying about the collusion and hegemony, realize that you're in the same boat as even the people who run the shop. 2. Yeah, there were 25 million iTunes downloaded over the past three months. But how long did it take for that many songs to be traded on Kazaa? Like 20 minutes? Is anyone (besides me) paying attention to the little Gb meter on the bottom that shows you how much data is available? Something like 4 petabytes! Wake up, everyone--there's still a huge amount of filesharing going on. The king is dead, long live the king.
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Journal Journal: Portable device emporer has no clothes

There is a huge problem in mobile computing these days that nobody seems to "get". Why is it that we can buy a 10GB hard drive MP3 player for $199, or a 100MB palm PC for $399, but we have no combined device that offers a good processor, display, wireless access, and sufficient storage? If I want to add 1GB to a palm, it costs as much as buying 10GB to play MP3s! I think the PC makers have produced for their perceived markets, instead of producing truly useful and powerful devices. They must

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