by Mike McGuire | January 26, 2012 | 4 Comments
Apple’s financial results for their fiscal-year 2011 (fourth calendar quarter, 2011) were mind boggling — $46 billion in revenue, net income of $13 billion. They’re officially in uncharted territory, financial performance-wise. But the number that caught my eye was the disclosure from CEO Tim Cook that the company sold 1 million Apple TVs in the [...]
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by Mike McGuire | November 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
After a weeks, or so it seemed, of rumors, speculation and innuendo, Google unleashed its online music store. OK, it doesn’t have Warner Music Group’s catalog but it does have Universal, EMI and Sony. Will Warner eventually come join the Google party? Probably, but they probably won’t need to hurry or anything. Google’s upended the [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 11, 2011 | Comments Off
An interesting couple of days in the online subscription music space. First, we have Rhapsody announcing that it was purchasing the (legal) Napster service which was most recently owned by Best Buy, Inc. (The legal Napster’s history is more tortured than the original file-sharing version. The legal Napster’s gone through multiple owners, none of which [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 6, 2011 | Comments Off
A few weeks ago, I was asked by a reporter to come up with a list of individuals who had exerted influence over multiple industries and who had initiated global changes to culture. In short, people who changed the world from their positions as entrepreneurs (we excluded political leaders). Henry Ford and Steve Jobs was [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 3, 2011 | Comments Off
The big news today out of New York is that Yahoo! and ABC News are collaborating on an expansive partnership to blend their respective content streams – ABC’s worldwide network of reporters including well-known anchors such as Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos and Christiane Amanpour — into a single Web offering for consumers that they claim [...]
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by Mike McGuire | September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
(And other challenges in a socially connected world . . . ) I moderated a panel called “The Future of Charts” at the SFMusicTech conference earlier this week and came away with a stronger sense of how complex the business of music (and media) will become under the influence of social networks and social media. [...]
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by Mike McGuire | August 23, 2011 | Comments Off
Why hasn’t the subscription model for online music? Sure, its previous incarnation in the first half of the decade was fraught with DRM snafus and, well, none of the services played on the iPod. But the iPhone and the app economy changed all that with the content-as-app approach e.g. online subscription services with a smartphone [...]
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by Mike McGuire | August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
Nice rundown on News.com on YouTube (Google) and its efforts to smooth (or smoother) their somewhat fractious relations with content rightsholders. In this case, the online video giant’s dualistic role as a music freak’s treasure chest and bane of segments of the music industry settled a suit which included the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). Like a number of organziations representing stakeholders [...]
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by Mike McGuire | June 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Apple’s announcement on Monday (6/6/11), gave us the company’s take on the notion of what a cloud-based media service can be – one that preserves the value of an a la carte sales model for downloads (in this case) while extending the value of its customers’ investments in iTunes by simplifying the management of their [...]
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by Mike McGuire | May 10, 2011 | Comments Off
Have you heard that Music Beta by Google is now available – if Google grants you permission to use their “beta”? Check it out here. Google wants to make listening to music “…a much better experience,” according to “Chris” who is the talking head who describes the Music Beta from Google in the video that [...]
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