How much of this was about the technology and how much of this is about Apple forcing people to use iTunes? iTunes should be a choice, not a mandate. I can understand Apple wanting to eliminate the drive from laptops (although I don't personally think the tradeoff of a little more "thinness" was worth it), but there was absolutely no reason to eliminate it from the iMacs, at least as an option. Prices for many catalog DVDs have gotten less expensive than rental streaming in many cases. This year will probably come in at $2.3 billion in spite of declining DVD $ sales. In 2012, it was over $2 billion in the U.S. The video physical media market is still bigger than the download/streaming market. We've tried to use Dropbox with some contributors, but it's too problematic.Īnd that's aside from the fact that people still watch DVDs (and Blu-ray, but Apple no longer believes in giving people technology choices). Due to file sizes and the fact that we'd rather work from RedBook audio than MP3 audio so that we don't go through a double MP3 compression process (after EQ and editing), the most efficient way for contributors to send audio is on a RedBook CD. And RedBook audio is still better quality than MP3 audio at "normal" bit rates.Īlso, I produce websites that contain archival audio. If I were to buy downloads for everything that's on my CDs, I'd probably have to spend around $15,000. Why should I pay for a download for a CD I already own? (And I own 1000 CDs, not to mention still owning about 500 LPs). Lots of people, even though Apple doesn't want to think so.
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