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Confident Apple for 2004 | |
| Subject: | Keynote and GB | |
| Date: | 2004-01-08 08:45:12 | |
| From: | reluctantswitcher | |
| It was an excellent keynote with some strong but largely evolutionary announcements. However, GarageBand is, IMHO, a "killer app". My kids are alreadt planning their music, CDs and pop videos, all using one platform. GB alone is easily worth $49 and that fact that you get iMovie with trim-editing, iPhoto with performance and database size improvements, iTunes with Rendevouz sharing, etc, etc - is great ! Pity iDVD still only links to Superdrives. BTW, I wonder when GarageBand, linked to iTunes, will allow upload, as well as download - just imagine ! :-) | ||
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Oooh! Cool! A section of the iTMS for user-submitted tracks. With a fair royalty process, paid directly to the submitter, in-home composers can make a few bucks while refining their skills. Meanwhile, Apple gets to keep more of the per-track price (or lower the price and keep the same share).
There are some hurdles Apple would have to choose to overcome, but they're not particularly technical -- more policy and staffing related:
1. Pre-screening submissions to make sure they are original recordings, not just uploads of copyrighted works. Not sure how this applies to new recordings of copyrighted lyrics, arrangements, etc. [An introducton to these rules would be helpful.] Perhaps including a stiff penalty (with a fair investigation proces) for violators.
2. Determining a valid quality threshold for submissions. The iTMS is successful, in part, because the recordings it offers are consistently high quality versions. Would even 10% of amateur recordings have high enough quality?
3. Deciding how to pay submitters. iTMS credits? Apple Store credits? Credit Card refunds?
Challenges, yes. And I'm sure there are more to consider. But there is great potential in this idea. I'll certainly look forward to seeing this feature in next year's Keynote.