Re:Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
by 9oliYQjP on Friday September 03, 2010 @11:47AM
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I don't like Jack Johnson but I know who he is. You'd have to be a pretty lazy music consumer to not know who he is, the kind that doesn't buy music but just listens to ClearChannel stations. Otherwise known as the kind of people that Apple doesn't want on the social network because they won't buy music and aren't much interested in it either.
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Re:Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
by uptown on Friday September 03, 2010 @12:45PM
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I disagree. The compelling reason Apple would enter the social space was to inform their customers about artists they don't already know about. To contend that Apple isn't interested in the ClearChannel listener is exactly wrong. In Apple's ideal world, ClearChannel doesn't even have a reason to exist. Their goal should be to expose artists and music that their customers haven't already heard about, in order to encourage them to buy their music.