What has two "Nehalem" Xeon processors, eight cores, a non-workstation class graphics card(?!), and a positively stratospheric sticker price? The answer is, of course, Apple's new Mac Pro tower, an aluminum-clad whale of a machine that art director Dave Girard put through its media-creation paces in this massive review.
iTunes Store: Variable Pricing Now Active
As expected, the variable pricing policy is now active on the itunes Store:
As shown on this screen capture, the popular tracks are now sell at 1.29 € instead of 0.99 € before. In theory, older tracks, albums or artists should now have lower price too; not sure if there are any...
Majors are in fact pushing customers to buy the entire album and apply a higher price on single track purchase. In other words, they try to kill one of the best advantage of the online music store, create our own playlist depending on our own choice...Yep, it seems that Majors want to turn the online stores to adaopt the same policies/business plan that they have applied on music CDs for years. They did not learn from the past yesrs...
Prepare for ludicrous speed: Ars reviews the 8-core Mac Pro
What has two "Nehalem" Xeon processors, eight cores, a non-workstation class graphics card(?!), and a positively stratospheric sticker price? The answer is, of course, Apple's new Mac Pro tower, an aluminum-clad whale of a machine that art director Dave Girard put through its media-creation paces in this massive review.
iTunes Store: Variable Pricing Now Active
As expected, the variable pricing policy is now active on the itunes Store:
As shown on this screen capture, the popular tracks are now sell at 1.29 € instead of 0.99 € before. In theory, older tracks, albums or artists should now have lower price too; not sure if there are any...
Majors are in fact pushing customers to buy the entire album and apply a higher price on single track purchase. In other words, they try to kill one of the best advantage of the online music store, create our own playlist depending on our own choice...Yep, it seems that Majors want to turn the online stores to adaopt the same policies/business plan that they have applied on music CDs for years. They did not learn from the past yesrs...
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