Steve Jobs Blooper

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I don't know if anyone hear has seen the recent Apple keynote address.

As Steve compared the iTunes store music download sales to other music stores, he apparently didn't think CD sales counted as "digital music" sales.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since when was a CD not considered digital?

Just got a kick out of that...............you may ignore my rantings.

I suppose CD's are technically opto-mechanical...........oh well.:confused:
 
Storing ones and zeros is digital, no matter what the medium.


Thats like saying DAT is not "digital" cause its ferro-mechanical
 
DAT is the warmest form of digital. cuz it's tape. so it's warm.
 
he was probably referring to distribution?
 
FALKEN said:
he was probably referring to distribution?
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Well, given that dat's are almost as rare as standard analog tapes, one may consider DAT tape to be better than other digital mediums, since it's rare, and it's tape.

Although Ghost couldn't have put it any better up there. I'm not personally attacking Steve Jobs, I think Steve is simply stating the general point of view of society.
 
You know, this whole situation reminds me of a discussion I once had with an engineer, who's grandfather was an early engineer around the turn of the century.

In the early 20's, when electronic amplification first came to be, and electro-magnetic fields were used to record, and cut records rather than pureley acoustic energy, all of the experienced engineers who had spend decades recording the original, acoustic way were initially turning up their noses to the fancy new electronics.

They considered microphones to be cheating, because they had spent decades having nothing but a single horn with a stylus on the other end, and their definition of "mixing" meant moving the band members into different parts of the room, and telling so-and-so tuba player to play louder.

Not much has changed, has it?
 
I'm not familiar with any of you yet, so maybe this is meant to be sarcastic or funny or ??? :) So, I may have missed the implied joke.

If not, here's my two cents. Jobs was referring to the means of distribution, not the media itself. So, CDs (while being a digital media) are not included in "digital sales" which solely means downloads through the internet or the ever increasing mobile device sales. All of which is still less then 10% of the overall sales.

Another interesting point is that the sale of 10 digital singles count as an "album".

m@
 
By the way, in related news, I'm holding out for the iPhone with 26" Hi-def widescreen and Dolby surround. Bet you think I'm kidding. :)
 
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