{"id":8,"date":"2008-10-01T20:15:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T00:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-10-01T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T00:33:06","slug":"oh-no-itunes-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/oh-no-itunes-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh no&#8230; iTunes shutting down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/135839\/2008\/10\/itunes_threat.html?lsrc=rss_main\">Macworld reports<\/a> that Apple may shut down the iTunes store should the music industry get their way &#8211; more money for their songs.<\/p>\n<p>iTunes is a huge money-maker for Apple. Not in and of itself, but the halo-effect of all the iPods, iPhones, and Apple TV that sell to communicate and deliver entertainment. It&#8217;s the hardware baby. Apple shutting down iTunes would be shooting itself in the foot, and I believe Apple to be a bit smarter than that.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: not gonna happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think not. Macworld reports that Apple may shut down the iTunes store should the music industry get their way &#8211; more money for their songs. iTunes is a huge money-maker for Apple. Not in and of itself, but the halo-effect of all the iPods, iPhones, and Apple TV that sell to communicate and deliver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}