Sony / BMG to block iTunes?..

octane

octane

I have issues, OK!
You might think so according this article:

"Apple, the US computer company behind the iTunes music service, has become the latest group to oppose the proposed deal between Sony Music and BMG, the recorded music arm of Germany's Bertelsmann media group", according to the Financial Time.

The computer maker reportedly expressed concerns about possible "vertical integration" between the merged entity and its respective media parents and "forcefully raised objections over the enlarged music group's selling power for music downloads and potential favorable terms with Sony Connect, the Japanese group's forthcoming rival to Apple's iTunes."

If successful, the merger could allow the duo to foreclose competitors in the markets for music downloading services and portable digital music players from access to Sony-BMG's music library. This issue poses yet another potential roadblock to the successful launch of an overseas Apple's iTunes Music Store.
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I would be more worried about sony producing an ipod competitor. Hey Apple make a deal with sony to resell the ipod like you did with hp and liscence the itms & DRM model to sony really cheap(like almost free). A partenership with Sony would be awesome for Apple and for Sony. Now that's a wma killer.
 
Sony are in a little bit of tiz at the minute.

They're struggling to get their collective heads around the whole selling-music-online thing.

Worst of all, they've been kicked into touch from the market they created -- portable music playing thingy .. Ouch!

Apple aspire to be the Sony of computers, but the problem right now is, Apple are trying to be Sony of musical reproductive devices! :confused:

There's pride at stake, here!..
 
octane said:
Apple aspire to be the Sony of computers, but the problem right now is, Apple are trying to be Sony of musical reproductive devices! :confused:

There's pride at stake, here!..
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musical reproductive devices?! sounds kinky
 
mabey Apple should support wma then slowly drop it off later, or make a wma to acc converter built into iTunes.

the thing than really angers me is some of the dance tracks from germany are really cool and not available on iTMS and owned by Sony, even old stuff you cant buy anymore. That means it probably wont be available on iTMS.

Apple you really need to do somthing here there is a split starting to form
 
Quicksilver said:
mabey Apple should support wma then slowly drop it off later, or make a wma to acc converter built into iTunes...
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Too lossy.

When you convert from one compressed format to another, you throw even more data away...
 
also: apple has a clear strategy here. and i don't see them moving away from it. they're for the open standard they're promoting, which is the image they want to have (we're open). adopting a closed standard would be bad for the image. and to again drop it later would be almost impossible, as it's a regression, which you don't want to make.

i guess apple is, right now at least, betting on their success. and we all know that until now, it does pay off. apple _is_ the number one in mp3 players and online music sales, so the _need_ to comply is not there. (it's not like you would, say, expect _microsoft_ to adopt apple's aac format, would you?)
 
What annoys me is that Apple seem to be standing alone fighting the good fight that is the open music format.

You hear a lot of companies talking up using more open standards but then when they have to dig deep and actually do something about it .. where are they?

They want open standards but they don't want to have to make any effort to get there.

So far, only Real have stepped up to the okey alongside Apple.

The worst case scenario is letting Microsoft move into this space and letting them dominate this like everything else.

Inferior products succeeding through superior marketing...
 
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