iTunes Is A Grownup – facing minor midtlife crisis?
Im a Apple FAN, I love Jobs, I cry when I see his Stanford speach – I nearly stand in line when they launch a new category killer. I AM A FAN.
I get high when I see how Apple makes money like no one else (I love rebounds) – I love to talk about how smart (nearly psychic) they are launching Pro, Air, iPad, iPhone, Nano… all with a perfect range of disk size 320GB, 128GB, 64GB, 64GB, 16GB – and me a perfect EXCUSE FOR HAVING ONE OF EACH :)
But I also love that – no matter how FUCKED UP SMART – and HOW FUCKED UP CLOSED the iTunes loop is. I’ve started using a better service – SPOTIFY. They are cornering iTunes on their own devices – looove it. I can have all the music I want (FREE WITH ADDS) – SUBSCRIBE (or get a voucher) AND I CAN go into offline mode and bring SELECTED MUSIC to the plane (or other of theose last and rare places without internet) – but always have NEARLY ALL MUSIC IN THE WORLD when on the www-grid.
For Apple its classsic situation – the WEB2.0 is just so fast and smart (and now the fucked up record industry has woken up and handed out more lisences) – and even Apple (my heroes) becomes a legacy hell. And iTunes is YESTERDAY – subscription ALL YOU CAN EAT is TODAY.
Wondering whats tommorow – old school Radio (or Rdio :) ? Well lets face it – growing up is hard – remember back in the teen years when you could throw a big party just by dialing via that old land-line phone and having a venue…
On the contrary Im just blow away by Facebook – I liked the movie and Peter Thiels response. And not only did I like the Facebook Message announcement – but I was blow away by this interview with Founder “Field Suckermountain” – he is pure BRILLIANT AND INTELLIGENT.
Talking iTunes and Spotify: YES Facebook can do a Spotify in 6 moths (and buy it in 1 ) – they are becomming such a defacto – and now you have MONSTER BRAND sites just looking like facebook (and its not design stealing – no no – just a fussy and comfy design). This example tells a LOT
Spend your day well. And remember rule number 6 (Don’t take yourself too serious).
Im just wondering when the Airlines and Travel Agencies all over the world will be wearing EVERBREAD shoes.