Bronfman to the market: Drop Dead
I see that the music industry moguls don't like what they see in the commoditization of their business - Bronfman of Warner Music is up in arms over Apple's 99c pricing on iTunes:
At an investors’ conference in New York, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. said the price of downloaded songs should vary depending on the popularity of the songs and the artists. He called Apple’s across-the-board $0.99-per-song charge unfair.
“There’s no content that I know of that does not have variable pricing,” said Mr. Bronfman at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia investor conference. “Not all songs are created equal—not all time periods are created equal. We want, and will insist upon having, variable pricing.”
Sure there is - commodities. You just got disintermediated. It's time to realize that consumers like being able to pick and choose by song instead of by album.


Comments
software languages and tools
[Isaac Gouy] September 24, 2005 17:02:55.560
Are we seeing commoditization of the software languages and tools?
Commoditization of tools...
[ James Robertson] September 24, 2005 22:28:20.639
Comment by James Robertson
Started back when Borland intriduced Turbo-Pascal (et. al.). It's been happening ever since
Hmmm...
[Hmmm...] September 25, 2005 16:08:18.491
That's why every so often, a new language will come up --- to decommoditize, to add unnecessary complexity, and to artificially raise the value of small accomplishments. But as long as people buy... the customer's always right, especially when educated to be right in the right way.
Expensive Progressive...
[Mark Derricutt] September 26, 2005 5:39:19.793
Variable pricing for quality and quanity? Yegads, if a 3minute Britney Spears track goes for 99c, I'd hate to see what they'd pitch a 45minute SONG by Dream Theater.... (and yes, they do have a 45minute ish song on several albums (ok, so its split into 6-7 'tracks' but its still one song...))