A BIG day for Apple & iTunes
Yesterday proved to be a big day for Apple, with two major victories:
1. iTunes will retain 99 cent pricing, reports CNN. Record companies wanted to go to a variable scale where the most popular (and some say crappiest) songs would presumably cost over US$1, while the less popular songs would cost less--possibly less than US$0.99. Jobs called them greedy, asserting that 99 cents is the right price. (I agree--while most of what I buy would probably have been in the cheaper category, I would NOT pay over $1 per song. I'll just go buy the CD instead, unless it is from Sony. Sony has forever lost my business due to ogrish DRM.)
2. ZDNet reports that French senators have backed down from their position requiring interoperability between all DRM formats within their borders. The bill has yet to be voted on. Some French nutballs are going to protest on May 7.
1. iTunes will retain 99 cent pricing, reports CNN. Record companies wanted to go to a variable scale where the most popular (and some say crappiest) songs would presumably cost over US$1, while the less popular songs would cost less--possibly less than US$0.99. Jobs called them greedy, asserting that 99 cents is the right price. (I agree--while most of what I buy would probably have been in the cheaper category, I would NOT pay over $1 per song. I'll just go buy the CD instead, unless it is from Sony. Sony has forever lost my business due to ogrish DRM.)
2. ZDNet reports that French senators have backed down from their position requiring interoperability between all DRM formats within their borders. The bill has yet to be voted on. Some French nutballs are going to protest on May 7.