"Picasso had a saying. 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas ... I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
-- Steve Jobs

"Stealing" another great idea, Apple has finished signing agreements with all the major labels for the launch of their iTunes radio service. Read more

"Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing." -- Samuel Goldwyn TV must be broken, because everyone's trying to fix it. Fanhattan joined the long list set on "simplifying the TV ...

"Major labels notoriously blew it in the '90s by killing the single as a format and outrageously overpricing CDs, which of course lead to the downloading revolution and the crippling of an industry. Now that they've been given a chance to redeem themselves with the ...

"Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive." -- Jack White ...

"Number one, cash is king ... number two, communicate ... number three, buy or bury the competition." -- Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4000% The streams are ...

"That's why I can't watch American Idol ... it is like karaoke without the booze." -- Tracy Morgan When it's OVER, it's OVER. As soon as they announced Nicki Minaj as a judge on "American Idol," I knew the show would collapse. Whoever chose Ms. ...

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." -- Steve Jobs I can't remember how many commentaries I wrote a decade ago when I started this newsletter, ...

Two weeks ago in the newsletter, my main commentary was titled 'TV OR NOT TV? THAT IS NO LONGER THE QUESTION. THE END OF TV AS WE KNOW IT IS NEAR' I reprinted the quote by Carly Fiorina, then Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard in her NAB keynote speech back in April ...

Why deal with all the hassles of buying and maintaining a music library when you can get nearly everything you want online? While I myself have a fairly good-sized library of several hundred CDs, I find myself only listening to greatest hits compilations and true ...

"The ruling underscores the U.S. Supreme Court's Betamax decision, with the court confirming a consumer's right to enjoy television as they want, when they want, including the reasonable right to skip commercials if they so choose." -- R.Stanton ...