[BC] These clowns TRULY couldn't buy a clue with a thousand dollar bill!

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DUH?  YEA?

OK, your are just given $100,000 to invest in the stock market.  You  
have two choices;  Apple or NBC.

OK, choose!

Geez.

--chip

On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:23 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 14
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:21:20 -0400
> From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
> Subject: [BC] These clowns TRULY couldn't buy a clue with a thousand
> 	dollar	bill!
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>> From All Access:
>
> "APPLE has destroyed the music business," said NBC UNIVERSAL Pres./ 
> CEO JEFF
> ZUCKER at an event organized by the NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC  
> COMMUNICATIONS.
> DAVID SCHATSKY writes on JUPITER RESEARCH's weblog that ZUCKER made  
> the
> comment in response to a question by moderator KEN AULETTA of the  
> NEW YORKER.
>
>
> ZUCKER put in context the highly publicized conflict between NBC  
> UNIVERSAL and
> APPLE over pricing on the ITUNES store. NBC sought to introduce  
> flexible
> pricing; APPLE refused, SCHATSKY reports.
>
> THE FINANCIAL TIMES also has a report on ZUCKER's comments, "We  
> know that
> APPLE has destroyed the music business in terms of pricing, and if  
> we don’t
> take control, they’ll do the same thing on the video side."
>
> As part of NBC’s push for more flexible online pricing, ZUCKER said  
> he urged
> APPLE for months to price one programme at $2.99 per download, as  
> opposed to
> the current $1.99, as an 'experiment' but was rebuffed by APPLE CEO  
> STEVE
> JOBS. ZUCKER also suggested APPLE had rejected requests to share  
> revenue from
> its sales of IPOD devices, which are far more profitable than the  
> digital
> media store."
>
>
> APPLE has destroyed the mjusic business???!!  So far APPLE has  
> SAVED the music
> business from ITSELF, IDIOT! YOU and your ilk are the ones  
> destroying it, with
> your inability to obtain a CLUE about what your customers want, and  
> your
> insistance to cling to an antiquated, obsolete distribution model.  
> In case you
> didn't notice Jeffy baby, The largest music store EVER, Tower  
> records went out
> of business last year. Why? No customers, that's why! People don't  
> WANT CD's!
>
> -D