Apple-Sony, find it hard to believe

[MikeF]

Apple should buy Apple Corp Ltd. and finally issue the Beatles on iTunes.

[pRICE cUBE]

bazookaman wrote:
why would anyone want them now that they've discontinued the walkman?

The what?

[gabester]

MikeF wrote:
Apple should buy Apple Corp Ltd. and finally issue the Beatles on iTunes.

Or Steve should use his ownership of Disney to get them to buy Beatles and issue the iTunes finally, and license the name to Apple, Inc to end that silly nonsense about names and music capabilities.

Or we can all just buy the CDs and do it the old fashioned way. It's not like you CAN"T get the Beatles on your iOS device.
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[vision63]

cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=Doc]
The rumor about a Disney deal is pretty suspicious, too. Jobs is their biggest shareholder. His old Pixar team is running the show over there now. Why would he feel any need to buy a company that he already has dominion over?

Sony sports revenues of over $70 Billion. Sony Pictures (Columbia) and Sony Music are probably pretty tempting. I think that Sony's entertainment properties hamstrung them during the formative years of portable digital music and video.
Disagree. STRONGLY. Sony's fascination with their own technology killed them.. Beta, MD, ATRAC, Memory Stick, etc... all were great technologies, but Sony took too long to bring them to market or tried to control them too much. And lost.

The key to consumer product success is agility. Sony was too big and too controlled. Apple kept their vibe in product development by keeping their teams small.
And all of that failure has generated only $77 billion in revenues. What are they doing wrong?

[silvarios]

The PS2 is the most successful console of all time. Outselling the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined. Only if you add the Wii have the three current consoles outsold the PS2. That's pretty amazing. I love my Wii…hmmm, do with that as you will…but it was the PS2 that brought video games to the masses. Since I brought up current gen consoles, the PS3 is only four million short of the Xbox 360, which is pretty impressive given Microsoft's one year head start.

Sony TVs are pretty damn good as well and priced competitively. Blu-ray adoption has been impressive. Sony has done a few things right, but a whole lot wrong as well. Their feudal structure is not good for the company as a whole. Entertainment should not be making technological decisions. Innovation and customer service should not be second to protecting intellectual property.

Nathan

[Jimmypoo]

Um... The Beatles / Apple Corps has already given full rights of The Apple over to Steve, and they
licensed back its use in perpetuity for something like a pound of prunes.

That issue has been resolved and complete since the last lawsuit you heard, in which the UK judge did NOT
side with The Beatles. Since that wasn't good press, they moved forward with the above.

I think the entire load of crap (despite their still being 50% of what I listen to) was nothing more than
keeping both names in the paper, adding fuel to iTunes, and getting more people to see what the whole
"iTunes Music Store" was all about.

In this country, it would involve jail time if such frivolous lawsuits were perpetuated every few years. But
it would have been Steve and Paul in the same cell - so Paul could have written some jailhouse tunes, and
Steve could have operated GarageBand.

That would have been a good turnout - since Paul seems to use ProTools at his own studio and Giles used
ProTools in all the remastering. Paul's keyboard player, however, uses multiple MacBook Pros and Logic,
as well as Paul using Logic to finalize masters. Go figure.