{"id":21102,"date":"2007-09-26T15:30:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2007\/09\/26\/amazonmp3-and-its-debt-to-apple"},"modified":"2007-09-26T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:30:18","slug":"amazonmp3-and-its-debt-to-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2007\/09\/26\/amazonmp3-and-its-debt-to-apple","title":{"rendered":"amazonmp3, and its debt to Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/09\/more_amazon_mp3_store\" \n<p>    title=\"Daring Fireball: More on the Amazon MP3 Store\"><br \/>\nIn fact, the tragedy is that Amazon could have built this store 10 years ago \u2014 the music labels simply wouldn\u2019t allow it. What\u2019s happened now is that the music label executives \u2014 at least at Universal and EMI \u2014 have finally gotten it through their thick skulls that it\u2019s the iPod that drives iTunes sales, not the other way around. Apple\u2019s FairPlay DRM isn\u2019t (at least primarily) some sort of lock-in scheme to force people to buy iPods; FairPlay was a requirement stipulated by the labels, without which they would not have allowed Apple to sell their music at all.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nBy the way, if you install the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/dmusic\/help\/amd.html\/ref=dm_dp_amd\/002-8747664-8196052\">amazonmp3 downloader<\/a>, you get a free Apples in Stereo song to (a) test that the downloader works correctly, and (b) force you to walk through the process of buying an amazonmp3 track for the first time.  Objective (b) is enormously effective in lowering any residual cognitive barriers to buying tracks over the Web (as opposed to the iTMS).  Minor gripe with the process: Even though the track is free, Amazon will demand that you supply a credit card and billing address (presumably this is because the amazonmp3 store is US-only at the moment, as enforced by those bits of info).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, the tragedy is that Amazon could have built this store 10 years ago \u2014 the music labels simply wouldn\u2019t allow it. What\u2019s happened now is that the music label executives \u2014 at least at Universal and EMI \u2014 have finally gotten it through their thick skulls that it\u2019s the iPod that drives iTunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}