Radio, take a day off.
You can't possibly outdo Apple's first well-publicized mistake today so rest easy.
Apple actually did a good thing yesterday -- a deal with EMI (number three of the big four labels) to provide DRM-free music from the sizable EMI catalog. Good because it cooperates with the inevitable -- the marketplace (next generation) is demanding free use of the music they buy just as if they bought a CD at Tower Records -- if there were a Tower Records. And there isn't a Tower Records because they ignored the next generation.
But Apple did a bad thing yesterday, too.
It decided to charge a premium&hellip
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