Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

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I’m always glad whenever Apple has some competition. Anything to light a fire under their asses is a good idea to me. And iTunes could use some serious competition. Maybe Songbird will provide that?
A multi-year effort to deliver an open-source and customizable iTunes rival came to fruition this week with the release of Songbird 1.0, [...]

Heh, heh. Priceless. Hey, give Lisa Simpson some credit. Instead of filing for bankruptcy she ended up getting a job to pay off her Mytunes music download bill.

I wonder if Apple CEO Steve Jobs saw this and found it amusing. Probably not. He’s not known to have much of a sense of humor [...]

Don’t Stop Believing by Journey.
Who would have thought it? A relic from the 80s makes a comeback in the Sopranos and ends up being the most downloaded song ever from iTunes.
Somewhere Steve Perry is smiling and depositing yet another royalty check.
I remember Journey getting ragged on by a lot of people when I was a [...]

Jim Goldman at CNBC has a bit up about the Beatles finally getting ready to go digital or whatever.
Does anybody besides aging baby boomers give a crap at this point? I’m sure the Beatles music is probably widely available on various file sharing sites so who cares if it ever makes it to iTunes? The [...]