Sony hints at pulling music from iTunes

Wow, I don't know about you guys, but that icon TOTALLY says "music store" to me.

Hey, that website is almost as attractive as Windows Media Player! I eagerly look forward to being able to buy Pearl Jam videos on Beta videotape and the entire Stevie Wonder catalog on DAT.

I'm sure Geohot will be pleased to hear that Sony is much more open than Apple. Clearly their lawyers must be confused.

Sony's music business is the one reasonably successful piece of a company with a long history of producing market-losers. It's conceivable that they MIGHT do something as utterly full of lose as pulling all their content off iTunes, but I'm betting against it.

Then again, maybe Simon Cowell is the next Steve Jobs.

Apple buy sony? Thats a laugh.

Plus, the whole thing about them being forced to do in-app purchases instead of their own store, if that is the case, is just plain stupid. Apple trying to get into the profits of the developers of the apps? Thought Apple was supposedly "better" than that, the underdog mentality. Obviously not, Apple at this point dosent really need that extra profit, I mean come on: The sales of almost all their products is very high now.

I'm sorry but Sony should be extremely happy with Apple selling their wares for 30%. Distribution channels must chew up more than that. Better to be selling stuff (even with 30% going to Apple) than getting nothing for people BitTorrenting. Makes you realise the same companies that struggled with MP3 formats and piracy issues are still not down with the download idea.

The game has changed Sony. Movie studios need to heed the lesson now and deal with how people have changed their viewing habits. TV execs too. The old way just doesn't cut it any more.

People are still willing to buy music and movies if given the right environment that is secure and easy. iTunes is not perfect but it sure beats many other attempts at doing this. People want EASY solutions. Apple's closed shop policy has allowed control and security.

Microsoft have lost the plot. Nokia, jumping into bed with them have too. Sony can join the growing list of big companies that seem baffled on what to do to make people pay for things. Sony make nice MP3 players and speakers. But even today they can't get seemless playback of tracks. Little usability issues like this are the root issue - they do not know what customers want any more.

WOW! How STUPID is that? So Sony, once you pull out of the iTunes store and lose all those customers what are you going to do? With the 10 customers you have left there won't be much profits!! P O O R management will RUIN your company! I won't miss them...GOODBYE!

HAHA... Apple will just buy them :)

And by 'ransom' they mean that Apple only takes 30% instead of the 50% or more of the retail price taken up by the distribution chain and the retailer.

I guess they found out Apple wasn't going to let them install rootkits on peoples' systems, so they decided to create their own way to do things.

They think a streaming service is going to make it so they don't have to sell music any more? I think they're kidding themselves.

I believe Apple should allow iOS developers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble the ability to sell ebooks from within the app using the current in app purchase or their respective stores. Give the option to the consumers to decide how they want to pay for it. Do I feel that apple should get a cut on every ebook that Amazon sells, no, because it isn't Apple's system that is delivering the content. If Apple were the ones distributing the ebooks to our mobile devices, then they should get a cut but if the only thing Apple did was allow me to install the app on my mobile device then they should not get a cut of whatever ebooks I choose to purchase on Amazon.