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- realmadpuppy, on 11/07/2009, -5/+28Steve Jobs changed music?!?!?!
I haven't done anything different even before the i-pod and apple.
Now the mp3 player and mp3's changed music, Apple just capitalized to existing technologies. - filltev, on 11/07/2009, -4/+14I would not buy an ipod but he has changed the way that music is purchased. Singles are much better when most albums only have a few good tracks with the other tracks just used to fill the album.
- inactive, on 11/07/2009, -3/+12MP3s changed the way I listen to/obtain music, not Apple. First I got an MP3 CD player then a phone that would read my MP3s without the need for DRM BS or restricting the way I put media on it (like mypods requiring mytunes just to drag and drop files).
- grldchz, on 11/07/2009, -4/+11Puff piece. Buried.
- inactive, on 11/07/2009, -4/+11More poeple download it for free, which started before SteveJobs. And even without hte iPod we would still have MP3 players. Apple didn't change anything.
- MarrowMan, on 11/07/2009, -1/+7like we need another iPod history lesson. Pff
- TheRealDeuce, on 11/07/2009, -0/+6Creative mp3 players were better than iPods.
- roessnakhan, on 11/07/2009, -3/+8People like Les Paul changed music, not Steve Jobs.
- Laminarcissus, on 11/07/2009, -2/+7Yeah, primarily by making ubiquitous white earbuds that sound like total ass, but still managing to convince hipsters that they look awesome in them.
- hpi5555, on 11/07/2009, -3/+7I really was hoping for more meat in the article besides a statistic or two.
- ShawnMattCraw, on 11/07/2009, -2/+6The ubiquitous white earbuds suck ass.
- borez, on 11/07/2009, -4/+8"Apple has revamped the way we hear, buy and make music."
What a stupid ***** statement, Apple have not changed the way people make music.
itunes is just an on-line shop, and the ipod is just another music player ( like the Sony Walkman was just another music player) people read far too much into this Apple crap. - elijahyossie, on 11/08/2009, -0/+4I've never downloaded music illegally - I don't mind paying for it. I do like my ipod, though, very handy bit of kit.
- syntaxgs, on 11/07/2009, -6/+10who is Steve Job he don,t,,, make music,, h
- mjoe, on 11/07/2009, -2/+5by making it easy to listen to your pirated music anywhere
- lolwatermelon, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3I actually spent all day writing a report for a class I'm taking that uses the iTMS to destroy the claims of the RIAA that 95% of all downloaded music is illegal. So far in 2009 there have been over 2.5 billion songs sold in the iTMS alone with another 2 billion sales from all the other music services combined means that the RIAA is claiming over 95 billion illegal downloads every year. Math that out, there are 1.7 billion people who have internet access. They'd each have to download (illegally) 60 songs. Everyone with access to the internet, not a home computer. Homeless guys who use the library computer to maintain an email address? They're counted. A realistic number of people who have downloaded at least one song is 10% of internet users, meaning every music pirate would have to download over 600 songs every year for the RIAA claims to be accurate.
That's an insane number. Half that would be reasonable, but the RIAA claim is that only 5% of music downloads are legit.
Also there are a lot of surveys show that people who download music are more likely to spend money on music AND spend, on average, $50 more than people who don't download music illegally. - Drizzit, on 11/07/2009, -1/+4Wal-Mart sold more music than iTunes for a long time. The same goes for DVD's and they have on several occasions strong armed the content industry into lowering their prices. Wal-Mart told them they could make more money using the space for other goods than selling music and dvd's.
- geodebug, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3Have to agree, this article did a summary of 'what' happened but didn't even touch on 'how'. Like Apple or hate them (or most rationally have no real emotion toward them), their history is an interesting tale of marketing and beating competitors to the punch. Maybe someone will post a link that actually tells that story?
- ConnerWoods, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3Ditto. Zune Pass, if anything, changes the way we obtain music.
- doshindude, on 11/07/2009, -2/+4Steve Jobs hasn't changed dick about music.
All he did was introduce the first really popular mp3 player and music service. That has NOTHING to do with "changing music."
Doesn't matter anyway, he didn't change how I listen to music, that credit would go to Zune for me. - CaviMike, on 11/07/2009, -2/+4What do those earbuds have to do with anything? They are the worst invention ever and they still haven't changed one bit. Absolute rubbish. I'd rather them just not include them. *****, I'll pay the same price, just keep those worthless pieces of *****.
- ConnerWoods, on 11/07/2009, -2/+3If by changing the way we obtain music, does he mean selling overpriced songs to their customers, and then limiting what you can listen to them on?
- homercles337, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1No *****. The sound that the iPod generates is ***** too. If you like earbuds though, i just picked up these:
http://www.headphone.com/headphones/yuin-pk2.php
They sound amazing, but i use them with a high quality portable CD player (at work). - Kronos6948, on 11/07/2009, -1/+2Totally agree. Funny thing is, with how large the drives are getting on iPods, we can now load them up with lossless formats like FLAC, which, in the long run, could make mp3's and other lossy formats obsolete.
- CaptObvious, on 11/07/2009, -1/+2When the iPod was originally released it was 5GB, and Creative had one that held 6GB a year earlier. Your memory is off a little.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/nomadrevie ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_NOMAD - SouthsideIrish, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1Drag and drop was the whole reason I went to Apple. How primitive drag and drop is!
- fury420, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Yeah, creative did have a HD-based player out the previous year, but it was nearly 2x the size and more than double the weight. Oh, that review mentions $500 too, damn....
hence... why I mentioned "devices using 2.5" HDs in giant form factors" in addition to the small capacity Rios & such. - CaptObvious, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1It was bigger, but the original iPod was $399. Also, like I said, the Creative was out a year earlier. Capacities of hard drives double in that amount of time.
It sounding like I'm making excuses for Creative, but at the time, CD players were still big, so the Nomad wasn't that big, in fact it kind of resembles a CD player. - fury420, on 11/07/2009, -3/+3perhaps, but portable mp3 players pre-iPod were rather bleak, and pretty much exclusively limited to devices with very small capacities measured in MB, or devices using 2.5" HDs in giant form factors.
Ever use a 64MB MP3 player? going from a world of 32-256MB MP3 players to 5/10GB was HUGE - michaelpinto, on 11/07/2009, -7/+7They may hate him, but I think ultimately Steve Jobs may have rescued the music business as a business. By sticking to his guns on a low price and yes by giving the industry the security blanket of a DRM solution he made it cool to buy music. Yes Napster was sued out of existence, but we now have a Napster generation who would have grown up not paying for music which costs money to produce. Jobs created an alternative, I'd hate to see what the market would look like today without him.
- Wicked68, on 11/08/2009, -2/+1That headline should have read "How an unknown, British man, who Apple stole the idea from..." hahaha. And even then its still not true, the mp3 format changed everything about us and music. Before the mp3 player we were burning CDs and listening to music in CD players. They probably weren't the first company to make a mp3 player anyway, probably just the first "major" company to make them and now they're known for them. Only iSheep (Apple-heads) and people who have Iphones buy stuff from iTunes. Let's not even talk about the existence of ,but not released Microsoft Surface and then all of a sudden Apple makes a touchscreen cell phone. Riiiiiiiight. Please get off Job's junk, he's not Jesus and even if he was I still wouldn't care. LOL.
- boxoctosis, on 11/07/2009, -2/+1 yes apple has had a big part in rewriting the rules for the music business. an article about it would be nice instead of a 30 second slideshow. buried.
- inactive, on 11/07/2009, -3/+2Dear Steve,
Did you read my latest comment? You said that if I keep falttering you, you would let me swallow. So hw about now?
Love,
michaelpito - epstephen, on 11/07/2009, -5/+4For all those saying that Steve Jobs and Apple didn't change music and that in fact you've had MP3 players prior to the iPod's existence, keep in mind that you are early adopting geeks and your technology use does not represent the vast majority of the public.
Yes, Steve Jobs changed the music industry by making an MP3 player that finally appealed to mainstream America. He smartly conceived it as a fashion accessory. Not only did the device not have the stigma of being a geek toy, it became a sought-after status symbol and became the catalyst for people to change the way they consume music (playlists, buying singles, etc.).
- mikebritton, on 11/07/2009, -2/+1Who gives a frog's fart about Steve Jobs? Can't we find another douchebag to worship?
- JoeNaguib, on 11/08/2009, -3/+1"Steve Jobs didn't just launch the iPod in October 2001, he bound it to iTunes, the first easy-to-use software for managing your digital music collection, which had debuted earlier that year."
How hard IS WMP or WinAmp?
Just like everything reported by CNN this is flawed, unfactual, and biased.
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