"Julian Standen" wrote in message
om...
Do you think this Apple move might have a negative effect long term on
the industry?

I was thinking of the selling soda analogy above and wondering appart
from Ipods what Apple can sell along with music... and then I thought,
you cant see a picture of Mariah Cary on an Ipod...

Sex sells....

Can you sell sex on an Ipod?

MP3 players with "picures" or videos HAVE to be next.


Cell phones with pictures and mp3 players are here, as are pda's with mp3
players and pictures, as are cell phones with mp3's.... the iPod is a
conservative offer right now in this arena, but it wouldn't be a good
product if there weren't years of future upgrades and slow price reductions.

There is mail, pictures, movies, iDisk access, calendar, it goes on and
on... Apple has been shoveling money into these subscription services (and
servers and bandwidth for them) and it looks like eventually they will all
be accessed from an iPod. Which, most likely, will be the remote for your
television as well.

Music is just the first application that is driving things like media
subscription services and p2p.

jb