Tim Cook On Beats Music and Why Apple Paid $3.2 Billion: “I couldn’t sleep that night…”
Guesting on the Charlie Rose show, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared why he wanted Apple to buy Beats, even with it's $3.2 billion price tag. Some of Cook's enthusiasm for. Continue reading
Did Apple Marketing Rip Off OK Go Or Did They Simply Improve Upon Their Idea?
Joshua Brustein at Businessweek looks at the possibility that a new Apple commercial is a ripoff of the original concept for OK Go's "The Writing's On the Wall" music video.. Continue reading
Best of Recent Apple/Beats Coverage In The Absence Of Actual Merger Activity
Apple and Beats are, of course, continuing with their respective businesses with a lot of merger activity ahead. But since the Apple/Beats combo is such big news we're all going. Continue reading
Kanye West Doesn’t Just Need Cosigns For His Genius. He Needs Money For DONDA!
Kanye West may actually be the hardest working ego in show business today. And he also may be building to a gigantic meltdown cause he's been giving off lots of. Continue reading
HMV Takes Steve Jobs’ Advice, Cannibalizes Self
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. “If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,” said the late Steve Jobs. He meant that rather than wait for a disruptor to change. Continue reading
Musicians: Being Polite Is Overrated
There have been various posts about having a positive outlook on your music career and being polite. Derek Miller challenges the notion of being polite and explains why he thinks. Continue reading
The Day Steve Jobs Dissed Me In A Keynote
In 2003, iTunes had just launched and was starting to put music in its store. During this time, Apple and Steve Jobs invited hundreds of people from small record labels. Continue reading
CommerceSocial, Music Management, Facebook Ad Failures, Michael Laskow, & Steve Jobs Diss
This week on Music Think Tank, Michael Brandvold introduced the new tool, CommerceSocial, that allows fans to buy music directly from social media sites like Facebook. None Like Joshua wrote. Continue reading
