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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Our view is that our biggest competitor is illegal music and P2P services. We always thought that if we offered a better alternative, then those customers would be happy to pay,
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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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We've known that about (400,000 to 500,000 songs) per month is what all the other online music stores in Japan have been doing. The majority of that being Mora,
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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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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.
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We are about 5 per cent of the music market in the US but there is no doubt in my mind that digital music is the future,
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We're extremely happy with the results, ... a huge success.
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If we give customers a better alternative they will pay, and certainly that has been the case in places like the US and UK.
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We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.
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Certainly, that kind of browsing is something that we've tried to encourage from the beginning, in the way the site has been built.
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We're thrilled to be the first digital music store to offer the songs from Dave Matthews Band for individual purchase.
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We've had the No. 1 digital music player in Japan. And now we can say we have the No. 1 online music store in Japan.
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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.
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I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,