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More like "Lala is doing something we want to do, I can't become profitable, let's buy them cheaply for their existing work and engineering team and shut them d
by lenley 16y ago
More like "Lala is doing something we want to do, I can't become profitable, let's buy them cheaply for their existing work and engineering team and shut them down so we can offer our own solution that can make money."
- notphilatall 16y agoItunes is plenty profitable, though.
- davidedicillo 16y agoand what would be wrong with this?
- lenley 16y agoNothing, that was sort of my point. People are mad at Apple for shutting LaLa down when it was clear LaLa was not a capable of functioning as a profitable venture in the format the founders pivoted to. Online music is glamorous; yet, not that profitable and few ways to differentiate your business.