The First in a New Series of Blogs Written on the Subway Today I read the New York Times while I was crossing the Manhattan Bridge into downtown Manhattan. Suddenly, with the turn of a page, my dreams of all-mobile music were both brightened and dimmed. SanDisk, the memory device manufacturer, has developed slotMusic cards, a pre-loaded [...]
Continue reading...3. October 2008
Is Nokia’s “Comes with Music” idea far more noble than practical, or will the service die out after one year? And the real issue, which we will cover later in more detail: Why does music have to be through a single subscription service and a single portal? It’s like we keep re-inventing music services and we [...]
Continue reading...17. July 2008
Have you ever heard a song at a club or party and wanted to know what it’s called? Now you can — even the next day or later. Just as long as you can remember how to hum or sing a few bars, you can find out what it’s called. There’s a new app for the iPhone [...]
Continue reading...13. June 2008
Mobiles Are The Future of Music There’s an old expression, “The less you know about how laws and sausage are made, the happier you’ll be.” Which is to say that the process behind creating these things is so gruesome that knowing what goes into it, would put you off democracy, or your dinner. After two days at [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2008
Will The Mobile Era Finally Kill Off The Record Industry? The music middleman, the industry executive, the pop-star packager: who needs them? Aren’t they just hampering creativity and impeding technological progress as they exploit both the bands and the fans? Well, yes. And no. Mobile internet music distribution is a US$2.9 billion industry, according to IFPI which represents [...]
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14. October 2008
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