CNN.com – Apple’s online music coup ignites a budding industry – May. 11, 2003
Singer-songwriter Janis Ian, a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee and vocal critic of her industry’s anti-piracy tactics, is thrilled by Apple’s offering.
“You can’t call it visionary because they should have come up with this five years ago,” she said. “It’s ironic that a computer manufacturer is teaching the record industry the next step, and so far, that’s what’s happening.”
Is this innovation overdue? Of course. Does it follow that a software and hardware company would be best suited to lead the music giants to this next step?