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Beats Music CEO Ian Rogers to Also Head Up iTunes Radio
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I'm going to go ahead and give tim cook credit for realizing that iTunes radio is a total piece of cheap puke junk and to call in some pros. The price may be a bit high but id like to see what he makes of this.
Personally, I think the integration of a streaming service into Apple's ecosystem is intriguing. The ability to use Siri to search for any album or Artist would be great for using in the car (iTunes Match already has the feature). I would also like some sort of Desktop app, even if it is merged into iTunes. Using an updated Remote app for iTunes to play everything (my catalog and the Beats catalog) would be great.
I was on MOG and missed many of their features when Beats took over, but I think the buyout put their updates on hold....which is why I am using Spotify now. ( would switch to RDio if they had 320k already).
I was on MOG and missed many of their features when Beats took over, but I think the buyout put their updates on hold....which is why I am using Spotify now. ( would switch to RDio if they had 320k already).
The insanity
.Steve Jobs would have never approved of this. I believe the quote was something to the effect of "people want to own their songs"
Why was he wrong .I certainly want to own my own songs. I have been buying my own songs for 99 cents for about 10 years now. I love the model. My 160g iPod Classic is about only 2/3 filled, and I intend to buy more songs for 99 cents to constantly fill it up more. Always in my pocket. That was the original vision of iTunes&ipod. I don't understand where and why it has gone so awry
You think this is failing upward, there was an inner circle of NeXT folks that followed Steve into Apple after screwing up the NeXTstation launch and promotion. The justification is learning from the failures makes you the most successful if no one has dominated.
Now time for spotting him along the Stevens Creek lunch circuit.
I know this is way off topic, but are you referring to the Stevens Creek trail? If so, I run this trail every other day, and I didn't know anyone of popularity was on it. Forgive me if I'm way off.
No Steve was right for those who do want to own their music purchases.
He was only wrong about those happy to pay anything above £10 per month to stream music and at the end of agreement lose access to that music.
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Yeah well there's a lot of people who would prefer instant access to whatever they want to hear without having to buy it. I'll pay $120/yr for that and only buy classic albums that I'd want to keep forever. Obviously someone like Jimmy Iovine agrees as Beats Music went the rental route.
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Cue has too much on his plate IMO. Give iTunes, AppStore and Apple TV to someone else and let him run iCloud, Maps and Siri. Both of those are full time jobs.
Who cares about you, it's obvious that iTunes sales are going down and Spotify is growing like crazy.
And Scotland
Um... Scotland is still the UK.
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Well no... he was right at the time in 2007. Now we have Decent connection speeds to stream and even the best streaming catalogues like spotify are still limited and don't have a lot of artists.
I also had a MOG subscription, and I tried Beats for a month or so after they took over. The Beats web app was - and is - horrible compared to MOG, so I canceled.
I hope Apple recognizes this and does something about it.