Chris Gorog to Steve Jobs:
Roxio ceo Chris Gorog says his Napster II has it right and Steve Jobs’ iTunes has it wrong.
Gorog’s imasculated Napster, the p2p app that made file sharing famous, has been weasled into the US educational system via the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and Penn State, the recording industry’s university marketing division leader.
But whether or not it has the jump on Apple is another question.
"After Apple’s applications and internet service vice-president Eddy Cue made an upbeat pitch about sales on his company’s $.99-per-track iTunes store, online competitor Napster ($9.95 a month for unlimited downloads) warned music delegates to ’stay-off the Apple platform’," says a Sapa-AFP report on the recent Midem International Music Fair in Cannes, France, here, continuing:
"These fighting words were issued by Chris Gorog, chairperson and chief executive of Roxio, owner of the relaunched Napster paying online music service. Gorog tried to convince music execs they should make their record catalogues available on Napster with claims that its Windows-based PC platform is compatible with two-thirds of all the mobile music devices currently available.
"Both firms, however, agreed on one thing. They both promised their online stores would finally become available early this year in Europe. They laid Europe’s huge lag behind the US on big differences in music copyright practices, retail pricing and track release dates between the various European countries."
January 29th, 2004 at 5:50 pm
not unlimited downloads. 99 cents/song and 9.95/album downloads still applies.
January 29th, 2004 at 6:22 pm
Streaming? If I want streaming I listen to internet radio FREE! If I want to keep it…I pay 99 cents a song and I can play it as an MP3 (after conversion from an Audio CD) or AAC/Fairplay on my iPod.
I dont think Napster will regain it’s share that it once had when it was “free for all.”
January 29th, 2004 at 6:37 pm
If it starts with ‘m’ (mp3, m4a, mpg) it’s music to my comp; if it starts with ‘w’or ‘r’ it’s wishful thinking or radical optimism ’cause I ain’t touchin’ it — full stop. Don’t forget to flush when you’re done streaming.
January 29th, 2004 at 7:19 pm
“Roxio ceo Chris Gorog says his Napster II has it right and Steve Jobs’ iTunes has it wrong.”
Lol, ok yes Chris, you’re soooooooo right. Pssssh!
Gawd, you know a company is about to die when they start spewing this kind of rhetoric. I’m not saying the iTunes Music Store is perfect but honestly. Napster came and Napster went. I don’t care what amount of Market Research you do; Napster’s brand used to be centered on free music, now it has become a corporate music catch-up game. They would’ve been way better off had they started up under a new company banner rather than buying the rights to the Napster name. I give Napster 12-months to curl up and roll-over. If I was silly enough to be working for Napster right now I would be handing out my resume faster than you could imagine. It won’t take investors long to realize that Napster’s name is not good enough to make it profitable. You have to have caché to make your music model work and Napster (rest in peace) lost it’s caché long ago.
Anonymous to Chris Gorog: Start your book now. You can call it, “I have no idea how to run a business.”
January 29th, 2004 at 7:22 pm
Who cares what this moron Gorog says.
Both Microsoft and Real are whining like babies because they aren’t getting their way, that Apple won’t turn the ball over to them and that it’s unfair that they are losers.
Well if you want into the game convince Apple to let you use their technology for your music site, so you can be in the majority and have the best possible quality with the least restrictions and not be subjugated to Microsoft exploitation nor their inferior quality.
January 29th, 2004 at 7:25 pm
Amen
January 29th, 2004 at 8:49 pm
Oh, kind of like HP did?
January 30th, 2004 at 1:12 am
“emasculated.” “imasculated” is not a word.
January 30th, 2004 at 7:19 am
exactamundo