Eddy Cue
Eddy Cue
Eddy Cue is Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Eddy oversees Apple's numerous content stores including the iTunes Store, the iBooks Store, and Apple Music, as well as Apple Pay, Siri, Maps, iAd, iCloud services, and Apple’s productivity and creativity apps. Cue testified in the antitrust case against Apple for conspiring on eBook pricing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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We're extremely happy with the results, ... a huge success.
song people want
People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.
book would-be higher
I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,
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I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen." So we wanted to do something really great for families... It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.
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Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.
competition
Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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We’ve got the best product pipeline that I’ve seen in my 25 years at Apple,
content learn listeners
It's a combination of the two organizations it's very much a collaborative effort. The more content we have, the more we learn about what listeners want.
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The Season Pass goes back and covers any of the previous episodes, as well as the current and future shows for that season. The Multi-Pass covers the current and future episodes.
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It is certainly our belief that digital music buying is the future of music purchasing. Certainly our customers love it, and you can see it in the younger generation. They buy a lot of music now, and they buy it all online. That is what they know music as. They certainly do not know music as a record or as a CD--they know it as digital bandwidth,
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We have all labels except for Sony and we are working with them and we know their artists would like to be a part of this launch - and we hope they will join us soon.
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The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.
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I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.