http://ianmurdock.com/apple/free-is-not-a-business-model/ on emerging platforms and the power of aggregation and integration Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:28:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://ianmurdock.com/apple/free-is-not-a-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-3183 Raul Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:56:09 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/?p=585#comment-3183 "Convincing" ?? aha. NYT forget a little thing: the music industry did close by force (with the help of the US justice) the then free and leading music interchange service -- Kazaa and others. After RIAA got its insurance from the justice against the free service, they partnered with the allways ambitious and almost broke apple's Jobs for the paid service implementation. Yes a big WIN-WIN deal. They stealed the internet music service killing via lawsuits the FREE service. How could NYT/apple close the existing free news service ? “Convincing” ?? aha. NYT forget a little thing: the music industry did close by force (with the help of the US justice) the then free and leading music interchange service — Kazaa and others. After RIAA got its insurance from the justice against the free service, they partnered with the allways ambitious and almost broke apple’s Jobs for the paid service implementation. Yes a big WIN-WIN deal. They stealed the internet music service killing via lawsuits the FREE service. How could NYT/apple close the existing free news service ?

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