> Why has Steve Jobs not bought a major record label ?
Didn't that whole Apple Computer vs Apple Corps (Records) debate make it impossible for Apple to sell music? They skirted by for a while after iTunes because they technically weren't selling their own music.
I think a better question is why hasn't Apple created the modern-day replacement for the record label of olde? You know, doing stuff to increase visibility of artists and pump up the various scenes than they currently do with their current "you upload, we take a cut" mode. Like having local iTunes concerts, performed by artists selling on iTunes. Free admission if you buy a $20 iTunes card. Or putting on impromptu gigs at various venues like coffee houses, dive bars, or local music clubs to generate some buzz around talent. Get Woz involved and resurrect the Us Festival under the iTunes brand, with indie artists from all sorts of genres. Music is about so much more than pumping sound into your ears.
I agree with the "changing of the guard" sentiment, but I think it better to disrupt from the outside, rather than prop up the old guard for a while longer. There's on old saying "once a pickle, never a cucumber". I just don't believe the industry can be un-pickled.
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Whether or not WMG is Metallica's record label, if he does pull this off, that would be pretty Epic.
Come to think of it, why has someone else from Silicon Valley not done this ?
Why has Steve Jobs not bought a major record label ? I think the music business needs a good old fashioned changing of the guard and some techifying.
If Bill G. or Jobs or Zuck or anyone that has a ton of money bought one (or some) of those large labels, that could be pretty momentous.
> Why has Steve Jobs not bought a major record label ?
Didn't that whole Apple Computer vs Apple Corps (Records) debate make it impossible for Apple to sell music? They skirted by for a while after iTunes because they technically weren't selling their own music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
And it looks like they have brought it up a few times in the past few years.
I think a better question is why hasn't Apple created the modern-day replacement for the record label of olde? You know, doing stuff to increase visibility of artists and pump up the various scenes than they currently do with their current "you upload, we take a cut" mode. Like having local iTunes concerts, performed by artists selling on iTunes. Free admission if you buy a $20 iTunes card. Or putting on impromptu gigs at various venues like coffee houses, dive bars, or local music clubs to generate some buzz around talent. Get Woz involved and resurrect the Us Festival under the iTunes brand, with indie artists from all sorts of genres. Music is about so much more than pumping sound into your ears.
I agree with the "changing of the guard" sentiment, but I think it better to disrupt from the outside, rather than prop up the old guard for a while longer. There's on old saying "once a pickle, never a cucumber". I just don't believe the industry can be un-pickled.
http://www.itunesfestival.com/