{"id":431,"date":"2003-04-11T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T16:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/04\/11\/apple-in-talks-with-vivendi-re-universal\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:43:30","slug":"apple-in-talks-with-vivendi-re-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/04\/11\/apple-in-talks-with-vivendi-re-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple In Talks with Vivendi re: Universal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone and their dog has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/2940355.stm\">linked to this&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple understands digital media far better than the current record companies. People want fast, easy downloads for a reasonable price. (Let&#8217;s say 50 cents a track, or a flat fee per month) Apple has the people that can weave an interface right into iTunes that would make this all seemless.<\/p>\n<p>At the right price, it becomes an issue where you wouldn&#8217;t ever bother downloading gigs and gigs of music to your computer. If there was a monthly fee, and any time you wanted a song, you could just download it in 15 seconds, why bother keeping 60 gigs of music on your computer when it&#8217;s all on the network?<\/p>\n<p>There are some very intersting possibilities..<\/p>\n<p>New switch commercials: &#8220;I&#8217;m Dr. Dre and I&#8217;m a hip-hop artist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Radio Stations&#8221; in iTunes showcasing the Universal catalog. Able to click-buy the track or CD right in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>An immediate &#8220;in&#8221; on the production side, Apple Hardware, Software in the recording studio.<\/p>\n<p>An Apple Logo on every CD? That sure would build some mindshare.<\/p>\n<p>250 free songs on every new Macintosh?<\/p>\n<p>But who knows. I&#8217;m just pulling that stuff out of my butt. Does Apple really want to get into a completely different business?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone and their dog has linked to this&#8230; Apple understands digital media far better than the current record companies. People want fast, easy downloads for a reasonable price. (Let&#8217;s say 50 cents a track, or a flat fee per month) Apple has the people that can weave an interface right into iTunes that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-6X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}