[Please note that this post first appeared on the Forrester Consumer Product Strategy blog. Over the coming month or so I will be migrating all of my activity there. I will soon be posting new information here for you to amend your feeds and subscriptions. Thanks] Lots happened in 2009 but it wasn’t a vintage [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Downloads’
HMV Interim Results and What they Mean for Music Sales
Posted: December 11, 2008 in music retailTags: Amazon, Apple, Åhléns, Digital Downloads, Downloads, Europe, Fnac, Games, HMV, iTunes, Music Industry, music retail, Saturn
Interim results are out for HMV, always a good litmus test for the state of music and media sales. I’m not a financial analyst so I’m not going to discuss the financial fundamentals, rather what this means for the music industry. HMV stores sales (i.e. excluding Waterstones) are actually up over period. But technology [...]
Why Apple Needs to Innovate
Posted: November 6, 2008 in AppleTags: Apple, Digital Music, Downloads, iTunes, Music
Long piece here on ‘Why iTunes Sucks’. I don’t agree with all of it, but there are some interesting angles, such as the fact that iTunes is becoming a store front for iTunes Music Store. I find this particularly interesting because it could well be an indicator that the ‘store guys’ at Apple are pulling [...]
