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So Apple will deliver an iTunes client for Windows Mobile. That’s a big call, as while the iPod is sexy, a Windows Mobile device is a pda, phone, music player.
So what does this mean?
In the iTunes launch Steve Jobs said that artists are earning more selling their music on a per song basis on iTunes than by traditional music retail. Madonna has now put her own entire collection on iTunes so that must be true.
Chatting to a mate of mine Jimbo in San Diego, a friend of his has a band in LA and they publish straight to iTunes.
What SJ must be doing therefore is disintermediating the music industry and cutting out the record labels and/or distributors.
This must be so lucrative that he’s prepared to let Windows Mobile devices compete with iPods.
Very interesting.
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