I don’t really know what triggers iTunes to close out a bill before it charges me. Does it wait a week? I have bought songs and rentals where I was charged that same night. Other times, like this week, iTunes takes its sweet time. Monday I bought Monster Pinball for iPhone. Tuesday was a song. [...]
YML quotes the Financial Times story about Apple and the big record labels working together to bring back the days when we actually bought albums. Money quote: “It’s all about re-creating the heyday of the album when you would sit around with your friends looking at the artwork, while you listened to the music,” said [...]
Smashing Pumpkins claims iTunes killed the album. Really? Or maybe people, when given a choice between buying the one or two songs that are good or an entire album of Suck, will opt for the former. Back in the day, we didn’t have a choice except to buy an entire album of Suck because that [...]
Five more years, that is. The Copyright Royalty Board voted to keep the current rates in place for another 5 years. The news agencies are happy that the iTunes Store won’t be closing. I wish they would have raised the rate, just to show the world that iTunes wouldn’t have closed. Come on folks, iTunes [...]