All Entries Tagged With: "iPod"

Opportunity Knocking

This weekend whilst catching up on current news and recovering from the whirlwind of networking, meetings and elevator pitching that is Midem, I once again took stock of just how inescapable technology as a theme has become to the entertainment industry.
This was my first time at Midem, and I was interested to note that the [...]

Feb, 02 2010 1 Comments Full Story

Apple Devices Are Sexy: But are They Reliable?

With all the hype surrounding Apple’s iPad launch last week TMV thought it about time to dig a bit deeper and look at Apple and the reliability of its devices. Whilst Apple products for the last decade from powerbooks to the iPod and iMacs have been both iconic and look sleek and sexy. Has reliability [...]

Jan, 31 2010 4 Comments Full Story

App Store Piracy Numbers: Implausible or cause for concern?

A controversial report was issued last week about the state of piracy for the Apple iTunes app store which ended up raising quite a few questions, including Apple’s lack of concern for it. In January, Apple announced that over 3 billion apps had been downloaded and since November there have been over 100,000 apps available [...]

Jan, 19 2010 3 Comments Full Story

Apple Moves Toward Music As Service

For nearly four years, I’ve been evangelizing the transition of the music industry from a product-based business to a service-based economy. I’ve never viewed this as a possible scenario but as the only eventuality. It’s going to happen, it’s got to happen, now maybe sooner than later. With Apple’s acquisition this week of LaLa, the [...]

Dec, 14 2009 12 Comments Full Story

Net Neutrality Debates Relevance To Online Piracy

Last month witnessed ever increasing noise in terms of the raging Net Neutrality debate in the United States and then the “three strikes and you’re out” policy of disconnecting persistent file sharers in Europe. TMV believes there is a clear similarity between each issue. Furthermore we believe it is important to analyse the arguments coming [...]

Nov, 02 2009 5 Comments Full Story

The Continued Devaluation of Music

With numerous new start-ups entering the digital music space, many of them ad-funded based, what is the effect on à-la-carte sales? Going further why do labels constantly state game developers/publishers and new business models undervalue their recorded music content?
Over the last decade we have witnessed an obvious sea change in the manner in which fans [...]

Oct, 05 2009 3 Comments Full Story

Apple’s Big Challenge is not Spotify but China

As Spotify goes live on Android and the iPhone for its limited number of premium subscribers in Europe, I hear the glee of the geeks Stateside and here. Among other nifty usability features, Spotify can play your entire catalogue offline through playlist caches, so you can listen to the largest music collection on the web [...]

Sep, 23 2009 0 Comments Full Story

Digital Music and The Environment: Is it really easy being green?

Research teams from Carnegie Mellon University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University released a study for Microsoft and Intel about energy consumption and CO2 emissions in downloading music versus buying the physical CD product. The study researched 6 scenarios ranging from buying a CD delivered via traditional retail methods and e-tail providers (such as [...]

Sep, 01 2009 0 Comments Full Story

TGE Video Interview with Gary Warren, Commercial Director – HMV UK & Ireland

This week TMV have posted another video interview we did at The Great Escape in Brighton. This time round we have Gary Warren from HMV in the hot TMV seat. On the change of the retail landscape Gary states that HMV have still witnessed growth within different segments of the physical market in terms of [...]

Jun, 23 2009 3 Comments Full Story

Is The 800 Pound Gorilla Gaining Weight?

TMV columnist Wayne Rosso, jumps into the licensing and streaming rate debate with some very pertinent questions relating to the biggest retailer of them all. Apple!
It is certainly no secret that Apple has grown into the dominant music retailer. Nobody is even close to them in the digital realm. Amazon is a distant second.
This raises [...]

Jun, 03 2009 0 Comments Full Story