Phil Leigh
Phil Leigh
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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.
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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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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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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.
When you look at those screens, they do look awfully familiar.
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TV is going to move to the Internet. And the best way to get people to try something new is to offer it for free.
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the future of search is in audio and video. Searching through text on the internet has really reached a maturity point,
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One reason Yahoo came at this price was they wanted to make it difficult for Amazon and MTV and people like that, that have waited so long to get into the business. I think it's going to be really quite interesting to see what Amazon offers, in terms of pricing.
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People have gotten used to listening to songs in the order they want, and they'll want to continue to do so even if they can't get the individual songs from file-trading programs.
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Apple made a misjudgment that there's no market for subscription services.
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The labels want to feel like they have some power and influence. They're losing the control they once had.
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The labels have complained basically that they're not making enough money on downloads, that they prefer subscription services,
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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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The labels are pushing the subscription services approach.