I'm not 100% sure but my impression is that the time of fear is over but the dominant factor right now is overselling growth potentials.
Since iTunes they've seen digital distribution works. I believe there are a lot of power point presentations out there that show how much more money you could make if you sell the same stuff 7 times instead of one time and that that is the way to go. OK, customers don't do that kind of shot but that doesn't bother the power point presentation. Services like Spotify help them because they spend a lot of money they get from VCs for early growth so you can draw nice charts about how well they grow and how much money they generate how much it will be if that continued the same way for 30 years. And especially if you are having 10 of them because you only give Spotify 5 countries, Napster two, WiMP another two and so on. Unfortunately, after 5 years the VC money is through and they have to scale down on pushyness like it happend to Rhapsody, Napster, Pandora,... in the past but that doesn't matter because until then there will be the next cool growth engine with fresh money who's prospects you can print on your power point slides. The piracy argument is and always has been just a straw man. But then hey: This is not just record industries. Corporate business works this way all around us, doesn't it ;) -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84670 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
