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10.18.2004
The iPod as a New Business Model
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-----Original Message-----
From: C. L. Hoewing (Verizon)
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:25 PM
To: Raymond Gifford; Jim DeLong; Randy May
Subject: Apple iPod - a New Business Model
This is really an interesting story. Apple's iPod music download service really is a new business model - selling the devices that play the music and coupling them closely with the music that Apple makes available.
Apple iTunes a Hit
Apple did find a niche in a market -- "free" music downloads -- that others have said is difficult to compete with and succeeded. But they are using a closed model -- their music application is proprietary and none of the songs that are downloaded for an Apple player will play on other MP3 players.
Now comes Microsoft, offering a new online music service where the songs can be downloaded and played on dozens of other players. They are supporting a more open business model.
Microsoft Opens New Online Music Store
The IP world is a strange one indeed.
Link Hoewing
AVP Internet Technology Policy and Business Support Planning
Verizon
1300 I Street, NW
Washington, D. C. 20005
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----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Gifford (PFF)
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 11:13 PM
To: 'C. L. Hoewing; Jim DeLong; Randy May
Subject: RE: Apple iPod - a New Business Model
In some ways, it is exactly like the early days of the PC market, when Apple opted for a closed-platform, non-modular architecture and created by all accounts a higher quality product. But it lost to the lower-cost, open modular platform that Microsoft championed.
posted by James DeLong : 10/18/2004 10:50:11 AM
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