Phil Leigh
Phil Leigh
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They're making consumers apprehensive. They're concerned that they're buying something that makes their computer crash. This affects all the labels. The average consumer doesn't know it's just Sony, so they become reluctant to buy CDs.
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The labels going straight to the consumer has retailers more nervous than a cat with deaf kittens.
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This is an echo of what we've seen before. It is a classic case of Microsoft working to establish itself as a de facto standard, now in digital media.
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Their world is an analog world; it isn't digital. Electronic media of the future is clearly going to be digital. So you need to have digital in your DNA.
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Contested patent outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict. The fact that a patent is initially awarded to one party does not mean that the award cannot be contested.
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It's just going to take some time. The BMW is not a mainstream car. But once we all have these new radios, we're all going to wonder why we didn't do this before.
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There's nothing that makes more sense than selling digital content. It completely removes the inventory problem. It completely removes physical handling of goods. That's really the holy grail for online retailers.
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Apple made a misjudgment that there's no market for subscription services.
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When you can buy just the songs you like in a digital format, you don't have to buy the album.