Wednesday, April 06, 2005

The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin

TMark Cuban (blargticle)


MP3 players are changing peoples listening habits. We don’t carry folders filled with CDs anymore. We carry our library in our MP3 players. We don’t listen to CDs. We listen to playlists that we adjust all the time. We don’t burn CDs anymore, it’s too time consuming. We copy all our music to our MP3 players so it’s all available at our fingertips.

All of our music in a single device. Available to us wherever we are, for whenever we want it. Music how we want it, when we want it. Easy and breezy. That’s how we want to consume music.

That’s not how we are being sold music.


This is a good post about the mismatch between how we buy music and how we listen to it. The solution i had thought of after reading through half of the post is a music vending machine, much like a soda vending machine. But he goes on to suggest an all-in-one machine for places like Best Buy and Walsmart. Fair enough.

Mark Cuban then goes on to wonder why this hasn't happened yet. Hello, Mark, that's your job. You are the guy that sees something not working out and then makes billions from making it work. (I would do the same 'sept i have no capital. Common lottery, that I don’t buy tickets for.)

So while Mark gets to work on those music pods for walsmart, i head on over there to wait for it to show up.

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