{"id":412,"date":"2003-04-29T22:14:56","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=412"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"more_apple_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/29\/more_apple_music\/","title":{"rendered":"More Apple Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usercreations.com\/weblog\/2003\/04\/29.html#a212\">Robb Beal<\/a>:\n\n\n\n<ul>\n\n\t<li>&ldquo;Apple users? Huh? You mean Mac users.&rdquo; Bingo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\t<li>&ldquo;A revolutionary system would be decentralized (i.e., Web-like) and artist-centered (i.e., artists would have ultimate control). Apple&rsquo;s system is neither.&rdquo; But didn&rsquo;t Apple have to work with the big companies because they own the rights?<\/li>\n\n\n\n\t<li>&ldquo;What an embarrassment&hellip;that we continue to see stories written that idolize a single person rather than&hellip;the diversity of contributions being made. Does anyone find the idol stories interesting, or believable?&rdquo; I agree with the first part, and perhaps the stories are exaggerated, but could Gil Amelio have pulled this off?<\/li>\n\n<\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pycs.net\/bbum\/2003\/04\/29.html\">Bill Bumgarner<\/a>: &ldquo;In other words, as my purchased music library grows, backing it up becomes quite the serious inconvenience.&rdquo; And, apparently, iTunes&rsquo;s backup feature doesn&rsquo;t help you segment the library.\n\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.com\/mt\/archives\/000284.php\">Steven Frank<\/a>: &ldquo;The major negative is of course the Digital Rights Management.&rdquo; \n\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bumppo.net\/archives\/2003\/04\/index.html\">Nat Irons<\/a>: &ldquo;I distinctly remember what happened to my music purchasing patterns the year I was using Napster most heavily. I&rsquo;d buy ten albums a month without even thinking about it.&rdquo;\n\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plaidworks.com\/chuqui\/blog\/000438.html\">Chuq Von Rospach<\/a>: &ldquo;A lot of the anti-piracy seems to me like the attempt to move speed limits to 55: too many Americans simply didn&rsquo;t agree and didn't buy into it. so you can either try to put a policeman on every highway, or you can raise the speed limit.&rdquo;\n\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.karelia.com\/2003\/04\/29#Apple_s_Music_Servi\">Dan Wood<\/a>: &ldquo;If Apple wanted to do something and revolutionary, they could have done something much more extraordinary that would have not only included the big names, but also allowed the &lsquo;little guys&rsquo; to make their music available over iTunes.&rdquo; I think getting the big players on board is a necessary first step to getting the concept accepted. It reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0262640414\/michaeltsai-20\">Don Norman<\/a>&rsquo;s story about <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/NORVH\/chapter1.html\">how Edison&rsquo;s phonograph lost<\/a>. And Rhapsody. The current system is a big enough step forward for 1.0.\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robb Beal: &ldquo;Apple users? Huh? You mean Mac users.&rdquo; Bingo. &ldquo;A revolutionary system would be decentralized (i.e., Web-like) and artist-centered (i.e., artists would have ultimate control). Apple&rsquo;s system is neither.&rdquo; But didn&rsquo;t Apple have to work with the big companies because they own the rights? &ldquo;What an embarrassment&hellip;that we continue to see stories written that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}