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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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,
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The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.
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I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen." So we wanted to do something really great for families... It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.
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Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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We’ve got the best product pipeline that I’ve seen in my 25 years at Apple,
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We're extremely happy with the results, ... a huge success.
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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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This is by far the best launch we've done with local repertoire,
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This is an incredible offering for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We've put together a package that's unrivaled in the music industry for launching a new album, exclusive videos and a concert tour.
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So the fact that we've already done two times that in the first four days is something that we are very, very pleased with.
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Competition is important and there are formable opponents out there, but that can't run your long-term plan.
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I think this is the best launch in terms of content of all the countries we've done,