The shift from fixed to mobile platforms has the potential to disrupt the TV advertising economy by enabling new ways to aggregate, measure and engage with audiences beyond the exclusive control… Read more »
A new patent filing describes a fairly straightforward method by which iTunes users can gift digital content to someone directly from the iTunes Store and have it charged against their own… Read more »
The shift in consumer media consumption from fixed, dedicated platforms to open, IP-based platforms caused problems for both in the second quarter. The period also saw a courtroom showdown between Apple… Read more »
The crux of the government’s case against Apple is that it acted as the “ringmaster” of a conspiracy among the publishers to raise the price of ebooks above what Amazon was… Read more »
There may be a theoretical limit to the upside from Apple’s inverted razor-and-blades business model, which may be why it’s allowing operating margins on iTunes to creep up. Read more »
Whatever Apple ends up doing in the streaming space, improving the nexus between music discovery and music acquisition is likely to be a big part of it. Maybe iBeats by Dre… Read more »
The hard question for Apple is whether it can build a meaningful paid-subscription business without grossly cannibalizing its current per-track paid download business. There are very few examples of those two… Read more »
Tablets featured prominently in the connected consumer space during the second quarter of 2012, both as a product category in their own right and as a component of broader platform strategies… Read more »
Apple has sought to use the cloud to heighten the value of its tightly woven ecosystem by integrating its own cloud-based services into the core functionality of its devices and in… Read more »