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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Fake Steve skewers the music business

Yeah, too much Apple, but Fake Steve Jobs has just done a great job of skewering the music business. Whether RSJ thinks the same is, of course, open to speculation, but he wouldn't put it as rudely in public or, probably, as well.

The fact that the music download industry was actually pioneered by people like musician Peter Gabriel with On Demand Distribution (OD2) -- launched in 1999, compared with the iTunes Music Store's 2003 -- is incidental. Apple was late into music players, music libraries and music software, but it was the first company to put all three together and commercialise the result in a profitable way.

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