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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iTunes comes up
Breaking and remaking media
- ▶ 13:40 Benedict Evans You can rent every movie ever made on iTunes or whatever platform and, you know, Prime has got a whole library and Netflix has got some and so on.
Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
- ▶ 26:19 Benedict Evans Um, Jeff Zucker, when he was running NMC in the mid nine, mid 2000, in the days of the video iPod, basically said, like, nobody is actually, we're not making any money from putting our content on the iTunes store.
TV after software
- ▶ 5:49 Benedict Evans You don't get, you don't, you don't get that by having a great compression algorithm and a great recommendation system, because if all you have is not like iTunes where everyone has the same show, same music.
- ▶ 11:57 Benedict Evans Um, and so, but, but, but the thing is, what they wanted to do is they wanted to do an iTunes to it, or Google wanted to do a YouTube to it.
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 19:24 Benedict Evans They didn't need to sign artists or buy a record label to have everything in iTunes.
Are you a seal?
- ▶ 13:44 Benedict Evans The same with Apple Music, you know, or even iTunes whenever it was, almost 20 years ago.