What Steve Jobs thinks about music industry
American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011); co-founded Apple in 1976 and led it again from 1997 to 2011; ran Pixar from 1986 to 2006.
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2 dated positions, 2007, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Jobs has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat.
↗Thoughts on Music, by Steve Jobs (apple.com, 6 February 2007)web.archive.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy.
↗Thoughts on Music, by Steve Jobs (apple.com, 6 February 2007)web.archive.org 3rd of 3 in this piece