{"id":302,"date":"2003-11-07T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/the-brutal-economics-of-itunes\/"},"modified":"2003-11-07T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T21:02:10","slug":"the-brutal-economics-of-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/the-brutal-economics-of-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"the brutal economics of itunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the register has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/6\/33850.html\">article<\/a> that sheds some light on the brutal reality of the online music business.  steve jobs is on the record,  and the bottom line is this:  even with with 80% market share,  itunes makes no money.  and they&#8217;re not making up for it in volume.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong>:  the recording is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/qtv\/analystmeeting03\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> (2003.11.20):  <a href=\"http:\/\/ryans-hope.blogspot.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">ryan<\/a> has a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/ryans-hope.blogspot.com\/2003_11_01_ryans-hope_archive.html#106866203976350689\" class=\"broken_link\">comment<\/a> and a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/ryans-hope.blogspot.com\/2003_11_01_ryans-hope_archive.html#106834949548923728\" class=\"broken_link\">prediction<\/a> on the subject.  (and we&#8217;re on the same frequency when it comes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/the_death_of_the_cd_is_greatly_exaggerated.html\">death<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/defending_the_cd.html\">cd<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;people will continue to buy CD&#8217;s&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the register has an article that sheds some light on the brutal reality of the online music business. steve jobs is on the record, and the bottom line is this: even with with 80% market share, itunes makes no money. and they&#8217;re not making up for it in volume. update: the recording is available here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}