Phil Leigh
Phil Leigh
fox guess hurt join moves soon
I guess they feel they don't want to be a leader. They want to be a follower. Eventually, it could hurt Fox if they don't make moves soon to join the bandwagon.
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It's certainly smart for the publishers to do this.
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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.
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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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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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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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Contested patent outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict. The fact that a patent is initially awarded to one party does not mean that the award cannot be contested.
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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.
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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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Apple made a misjudgment that there's no market for subscription services.
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This is an incremental step, because they are limiting it to short form videos and trivia -- stuff that fits with the short attention span mobile customers might have, particularly a youthful subscriber.