Apple Wants to Open Song Vaults
Katie Dean,
Wired News,
May 12, 2004
Apple is pitching to have music companies make available currently unavailable tracks - something like two thirds of their inventory - through iTunes. "What Steve Jobs isCRLFsaying is, 'We'd be happy to take all this content that is rotting away in warehouses and turn it into a new revenue source for you.'" One of my major criticisms of current online music offerings is the limited selection of materials - if I want to be mainstreamed, I'll listen to AM radio. Of course, once these stores are exhausted, Apple will discover that the music cartel's stocks are still too limited - the fun begins when the marketplace opens to all music vendors, whether they are part of the current monopoly or not.
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