iTunes, every mention
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every year anyone David Rosenthal 4Ben Gilbert 4Jason Calacanis 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iTunes comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 2:26:08 David Rosenthal The iPod comes out, iTunes comes out, and one of the big marketing campaigns for the iPod and iTunes is rip, mix, burn.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:26:30 Ben Gilbert Sort of like a lot of people use Napster, but then when you let people buy songs on iTunes, easy beats free, a hell of a lot more people started actually buying music than ever pirated it.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:11 Ben Gilbert And of course it would have bootstrapped their ecosystem since it used iTunes and all that.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 20:31 David Rosenthal Future seeds of iTunes.
- ▶ 20:34 Ben Gilbert It got acquired by Apple, and then eventually they, I think, built off the same code base and turned it into iTunes.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 2:11:36 Jason Calacanis I don't think so, because I see it on iTunes very high.
- ▶ 2:11:39 Jason Calacanis Yeah, it's really weird that, like, Spotify doesn't allow Joe Rogan and Call Her Daddy on iTunes because...
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:13 David Rosenthal Then, in 2003, Apple and Steve Jobs, well, in 2001 they launched iTunes and the iPod.
- ▶ 3:08:23 David Rosenthal Ok, but it's Apple.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:12 Ben Gilbert Kind of looks like dark iTunes.
- ▶ 2:20:34 unnamed speaker So then iTunes comes along and individual song purchases start to save it, but don't nearly make up for the lost revenue.