ITunes

“Jimmy was trying to get a deal done with Coca-Cola. An executive at Coca-Cola, Steve Hyatt, turned it down twice.”

“Not only did we do it for the Mac, but we also did it for Windows. And so it opened Apple to a We have a whole new ecosystem of customers that had never used our products before, but were using iTunes and iPod for the first time.”

“When the price is 99 cents and it's consistent, you never have to think about price. And so you would preview a song, decide whether you like it or not. And if you did, you bought. And so there was never any transaction, a billing transaction that you had to t…”

“If you look at those deals are reflective of the iTunes download market, 70, 30. That was the same business as the download market. So they just copied that, which is not a great bit model for that. Why? Because you have Not enough money in the streaming servi…”

“I helped him get the licenses for iTunes.”

“What the original version of Lightspeed was almost set up like iTunes now called Apple Music. Now it makes no sense anymore. But back in the day, like iTunes had like playlists on the side and like content on the other side. And we built, you know, the origina…”

“Today, if you want to gift something to someone any content, A podcast that you like a playlist that you love, an artist that you really like. There's no way to do it. You should, you can only buy a CD, or you can buy a gift card.”

“There's an API on the iPhone for the iTunes store where you can pull in music previews and you don't have to pay any licensing fees for those because they're just 15 second clips. And so you could have access to the entire iTunes music library, every single so…”

“Music in itself tends to be like sort of always like one of the first areas where you see Real impact of new technologies, whether, you know, Spotify or like iTunes or piracy or like all these things or gramophones going back.”

“It got acquired by Apple, and then eventually they, I think, built off the same code base and turned it into iTunes.”

“Well, that's where it got a little complicated because iTunes had that digital rights management. So if you bought an iTunes track, you couldn't play that. But if you used iTunes to play your ripped music, you could.”

“Also the library was crafted. So he would give feedback for months on the content of the library because he would do demos. And so he wanted to know, you know, make sure all my favorite tracks are in there. My favorite Beatles records, my favorite Bob Dylan re…”

“Nobody knew the song a week ago. It got twenty-five million views on X in a week or three days. And it's the number one song on iTunes right now.”

“We did all the early commercials for iTunes. We helped them tune iTunes. We just, Interscope went all in on iTunes.”

“Today I think it's two and a half, three million members. We built the most popular real estate podcast on iTunes, still a top 10 business show on iTunes. And then we built out multiple other podcasts and other categories related. We bought we built up a book …”

“This is another piece of the story is Apple and Google sort of complete strategic failure in TV. What Apple and Google wanted to do and what Apple wanted to do with the Apple TV and indeed with the Apple TV app they have now. And remember the Apple TV original…”

“Apple at the time when they really originally built the app store, they forked it from iTunes. And so there's an old character limit that they had for titles of songs, which is 255 characters, but they also allowed that character limit for app titles.”

“Our top rating, we are number eight in iTunes and in Spotify in the business category, which is pretty good.”

“They evaluated the game, probably liked the story of us just being a few country bumpkins in Jersey in a, in an attic trying to build for this new platform they were launching, and liked the fact that we were building a social game, which was wildly popular on…”

“We released a record, and, you know, at the end of the month, we logged into our bank account, and, like, we had sold 30,000 songs, and because we hadn't signed with a label, we owned all our own masters, and therefore we owned all the royalties, so we logged …”

“In high school we were making probably a couple thousand dollars a month.”

“Piracy in soccer is, I would say, at, like, the levels pre-iTunes, if you remember, in the music industry, right? Like, there are, like, there is an equivalent of Kazaz. There are many of them. And no one's doing anything to solve it.”

“Where I can blame myself is that I was very casual about where the IP lived, despite that it was mine. I had it living on their servers and their passwords. Yes. And their iTunes account to launch the app.”

“Oh, well, I got a friend that talked to a friend that has happens to work at Apple and they're like, oh, this show's cool. We're, you know, you guys are small, but we're going to put you on there. They put us on the homepage.”

“ITunes, iTunes description means nothing.”

“In the business section, you're lucky if it gives you a bump of a hundred.”

“The top 200 list in iTunes is based on the total number of new subscribers in the last seven days with a weighted average for the last 24, 48, and 72 hours. It does not factor in ratings and reviews in the top 200 list.”

“I, I've looked at the top 200 overall, and one week I was looking, and number 12 had two and a half million downloads for the episode that was released most recent, and number 15 had 979.”

“So when an episode is released in iTunes, it won't show up in the top episode list until about 24 hours after it's been released. So if you look at that list, it's again, it's going to be how many new downloads that show is getting in the last week with again,…”

“Apple, iTunes, and the podcast app are 70%.”

“And I don't see Apple ever releasing out the information that we would need to get on that playback and where it leaves.”

“Really, really, you're going to change how people want to consume it so that they can get more ads. Wow, what a stupid idea that is. So you think people out there are going to go, yes, I want to hear Geico ads. Please let me change how I listen. No, that's not…”

“You know, if you look at like the original iTunes application, that was two guys.”

“They, you know, ended up calling me whether I wanted to invest in Kazaa, And I was not really convinced, convinced that it would be a healthy business because It was actually a business plan one-to-one with iTunes, but they didn't have, or we didn't have the n…”

“Yeah, we, right now, I think we've got like, 800,000. We're one of the largest shows in iTunes.”

“I call Apple and I go, hey, who would you like to see me interview? I've got these ideas and who can you, who would you put on the front page of iTunes? And they give me a list out of that list. And then I call those people's PR or have my, I have my people ca…”