Steve Schow's Profile

I'm sorry, but $.10 per song is more than the artist gets. That's still too much. They are going to make $51 million from distributing songs over a website? Puleezze. Its just more of the same thing that record companies have been doing for years. Apple should get out of that business and stick to computers. Well, ok.. ipods are cool! They're overpriced too though! B-)

I tend to agree with you. I love my Mac and I love Panther. It all has a bright future. I am, however, very dissappointed with some of the business practices that Apple is pulling out of their hat now. their retails store is one of them. I also must be the only person on the planet that seems to think the Apple Itunes store is rotten to the core.. "Huh?"..you say.... Listen, everyone knows the record and film business has been rotten to the core for years. The music business especially has been rotten to the core. How long have they been robbing artists and consumers alike? Now Apple is joining their ranks. They are essentially charging the same amounts for a downloadable song that you would pay if you were to buy it in CD form (ok, albeit you have to buy the whole album at a time, can't buy individual songs on CD)..but still...add up 10-15 songs to fill a CD and its the same price as buying a CD. But wait, you're not supposed to burn AAC files onto CD and oh yea..you can only have it on two computers at once and you have to jump through hoops to move it around. And technically speaking its NOT full CD quality either. Hmm.. In addition, they are eliminating many middlemen, distribution costs, production costs, materials, etc.. and the best that they can do is $1.00 per song? Who is the money grubbing record company now? Apple is. I'm sorry, but that's how I see it. Bring us down to $0.25/song and we might have something. I personally believe that will happen over time. Apple is just temporarily cashing in on the initial craze is all. The concept of downloadable (non-free) music is great. I am a musician and hope to distribute some of my own music that way. however $1.00 per song is just more of the same highway robbery...only worse because theoretically their costs involved for getting the music from the artist to the consumer are much lower now than ever before. I see the whole fiasco as a dance where everyone is racing to get a piece of the pie..and I can't really see why anyone should be getting much of that pie..other than the artist themselves quite frankly. I hope the Beattles sue Apple for getting into the music business, make millions and millions of dollars and force Apple to go back to what I need them to do...make a better mac and improve the OS i bought from them.