Re:ITunes Will Soon Be Obsolete
by stcredzero on Thursday June 07, 2012 @04:54PM
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So, basically the same thing in a different phrasing?
No, that would be like relating the facts I mentioned about the software industry, and saying that, "The Software Industry is Doomed, Period."
It's more like, "The X industry of time period Y through Z is doomed." Phrased that way, it seems embarrassingly obvious.
There is no, "The Music Industry," of all time. There is only music industry of a particular technological context.
Or, it means that technology (and preexisting oligopoly) has broken that particular market.*
So, basically the same thing in a different phrasing?
>Recordings themselves are an experiential byproduct.
Yes. I do think that the record ALSO removed the primary link between audience and musician. But al least it retained some of that.
A record is a byproduct primarily linked with music.
In a way that t-shirt, an autograph box, vinyl dolls etc are not.