Media +Technology Intelligence
It’s here. After nearly a year of carefully orchestrated speculation and hype, Apple has finally unveiled: the “iPad,” thus causing millions of women across the blogosphere, in unison, to go, “eewwww.” (Are there no women in the marketing department at Apple?) Among the less lunationally sensitive, the verdict has been more mixed, but the rough consensus seems Read More …
For a company that has never been terribly friendly toward ordinary press coverage Apple has had a remarkably sophisticated media operation over the years when it suits Apple’s purposes. They’ve been masterful at winking, nodding and leaking just enough juicy bits to the fanboy sites and a few carefully selected mainstream outlets to get everybody Read More …
The New York Times published a story the other day asking,Will Books be Napsterized? It’s conclusion? Probably, now that e-book readers are going mainstream and file-hosting sites like RapidShare are making it easier than ever for people to post pirated e-books online (speaking on a network filtering panel at the Future of Music Coaltion Policy Read More …
The release of the Napster client in 1999 is seen by most in the music industry as a watershed event. It was the moment when millions of people began “trading” individual music tracks over the Internet and–in the received version of the story–stopped buying CDs. The industry’s response was, first, panic, then to attempt to get Read More …
Apple may be close to doing for portable video just what it did for digital music: Providing an elegant, simple-to-use (and proprietary) hardware/software/human interface that makes Apple the default option forportable video consumers and program suppliers. Read More …