![]() “Whatever the music industry thought, that’s what you shouldn’t do.” So the iPod benefited not just from the design deficiencies of the MP3 players before it, but also from an early mover taking all the legal heat from a record business spooked into fight mode. “ was a bellwether for idiocy,” claims Jim Griffin, an industry consultant who cut his digital teeth at Geffen in the 1990s, putting out the first full-length song legally online in June 1994 ( Head First by Aerosmith). But not, I would suggest, for DAB.The industry responded by attempting to sue filesharing service Napster and the copycat services that came in its wake: litigation rather than innovation. They clearly haven't told Steve Jobs.Īs James Cridland, the BBC's former executive product manager for audio visual products, points out on his blog, today is a "good day for radio". Now that advantage has been wiped out, for Nano owners at least.Īnd it again raises questions about the wisdom of the government's plans to remove all national radio stations, and most of the big regional ones, from FM by 2015. Pause and rewind is the sort of "added value" that gives DAB the upper hand over analogue FM. ![]() ![]() It is exactly the type of thing that was being speculated about two years ago - we were obviously ahead of our time - except back then all the talk was about digital.Īs the industry gears up for the next big marketing push for DAB, the advent of the "FM iPod" is not exactly the leg-up they were looking for. ![]() I'm not going to shell out for a Nano as well, although I can download an app allowing me to listen to some - but not all - of my favourite radio stations on my iPhone. Having just invested in an iPhone, I have mixed feelings about this innovation. ![]()
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