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> The same is happening in the mobile world in app stores now. People expect to get the initial offering, and then see continuous improvement through their fre

by aikah 12y ago

> The same is happening in the mobile world in app stores now. People expect to get the initial offering, and then see continuous improvement through their free updates for life. What's happening in the mobile world is in-app purchase.Where you are coerced into buying digital goods one way or another. And it's coming to non-gaming apps,trust me.That's the future. As for Taylor Swift,she represents everything that is wrong with the music industry.She is a mass market product,not an artist.

ronilan 12y ago
> As for Taylor Swift,she never won real money selling records. She represent everything that is wrong with the music industry.She is a mass market product,not an artist. But one day she'll be living in a big ol' city and all you're ever gonna be is mean.. :)
vdaniuk 12y ago
I understand the general discontent with in-app purchases, but stop being sensational. No one is "coerced" into buying digital goods. definition of coerce is "persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats." Obviously there are no threats or force applied by the app developers to sell digital goods.
gr2020 12y ago
> As for Taylor Swift,she represents everything that is wrong with the music industry.She is a mass market product,not an artist. Not a fair characterization, IMHO. She writes her own songs, and manages her own career. She might have mass market appeal, but I don't see how you can argue she's not a legitimate artist.
- soganess 12y ago
  Because he believes what she is producing does not meet the threshold requirement of being deemed as art? Just because she is referred to as an artist by an industry attempting to profit from her production does not defacto her as such. Perhaps Taylor is just a shrewd business person who has a natural understanding of what has strong social appeal. What if she openly admit that was her intent? Would you still call her an artist? I would not, and I imagine a great many others wouldn't either. There is a lot to being an artist and this automatic labeling is misleading and perhaps, if you are extra paranoid, nefarious in intent.

by aikah 12y ago

ronilan 12y ago

> As for Taylor Swift,she never won real money selling records. She represent everything that is wrong with the music industry.She is a mass market product,not an artist. But one day she'll be living in a big ol' city and all you're ever gonna be is mean.. :)

vdaniuk 12y ago

I understand the general discontent with in-app purchases, but stop being sensational. No one is "coerced" into buying digital goods. definition of coerce is "persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats." Obviously there are no threats or force applied by the app developers to sell digital goods.

gr2020 12y ago

> As for Taylor Swift,she represents everything that is wrong with the music industry.She is a mass market product,not an artist. Not a fair characterization, IMHO. She writes her own songs, and manages her own career. She might have mass market appeal, but I don't see how you can argue she's not a legitimate artist.

soganess 12y ago
Because he believes what she is producing does not meet the threshold requirement of being deemed as art? Just because she is referred to as an artist by an industry attempting to profit from her production does not defacto her as such. Perhaps Taylor is just a shrewd business person who has a natural understanding of what has strong social appeal. What if she openly admit that was her intent? Would you still call her an artist? I would not, and I imagine a great many others wouldn't either. There is a lot to being an artist and this automatic labeling is misleading and perhaps, if you are extra paranoid, nefarious in intent.