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unpopular truth -- around the time of the iMac products, well-before iPhone, Steve Jobs was building iTunes with huge guile on how to take record company reven
by mistrial9 3y ago
unpopular truth -- around the time of the iMac products, well-before iPhone, Steve Jobs was building iTunes with huge guile on how to take record company revenue.. and some indie Mac devs were building a fun music player. Steve personally visited their house somewhere, with security around him, and told them "you have no chance" to make this a product. .. out of college guys making something fun. The issue was .. iTunes is the Mac OS music player - end of statement. (MSFT drama on this exact topic was fresh in the waters)
source-- mac dev at the time
- simantel 3y agoHa yeah, I remember that from Cabel Sasser's write up about the story of Audion: https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/ https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
- cafard 3y agoThank you for the link.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- TMWNN 3y agoWait. So basically the "Bill Gates visits the Simpsons" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE> clip actually happened, except Jobs instead of Gates?