Lasse Penttinen
28 Apr 2003 13:24
Is Apple turning into a media house? The ever innovative Steven Jobs is sailing his company to totally new waters by entering the budding online music sales & distribution market.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the Moscone Convention center here and pronounced a new era for digital music consumption, saying that other online music services are either illegal or unattractive.Jobs is a respected visionary and his voice gets heard in the IT industry. It will be interesting to see what company is the next to follow this new trend. Micro$oft?
"We were able to negotiate landmark deals with all of the major labels," he said of the company's newly launched iTunes Music Store. "There is no legal alternative that's worth beans."