Phil Leigh
Phil Leigh
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People have gotten used to listening to songs in the order they want, and they'll want to continue to do so even if they can't get the individual songs from file-trading programs.
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TV is going to move to the Internet. And the best way to get people to try something new is to offer it for free.
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There's nothing that makes more sense than selling digital content. It completely removes the inventory problem. It completely removes physical handling of goods. That's really the holy grail for online retailers.
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the future of search is in audio and video. Searching through text on the internet has really reached a maturity point,
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Contested patent outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict. The fact that a patent is initially awarded to one party does not mean that the award cannot be contested.
When you look at those screens, they do look awfully familiar.
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Apple made a misjudgment that there's no market for subscription services.
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One reason Yahoo came at this price was they wanted to make it difficult for Amazon and MTV and people like that, that have waited so long to get into the business. I think it's going to be really quite interesting to see what Amazon offers, in terms of pricing.
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When you can buy just the songs you like in a digital format, you don't have to buy the album.
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They're making consumers apprehensive. They're concerned that they're buying something that makes their computer crash. This affects all the labels. The average consumer doesn't know it's just Sony, so they become reluctant to buy CDs.
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This is an echo of what we've seen before. It is a classic case of Microsoft working to establish itself as a de facto standard, now in digital media.
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This is an incremental step, because they are limiting it to short form videos and trivia -- stuff that fits with the short attention span mobile customers might have, particularly a youthful subscriber.
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It's certainly smart for the publishers to do this.
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It's getting more competitive. They've entered the stage where incremental market share is going to be harder to get and they're going to just have to focus on running the best business they can.