Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

It would make love not war with its customers like Apple does in everything else. And it would need a name other than Apple Records (in deference to the former Beatles' label). That aside, Steven Jobs would either not join the RIAA or the RIAA would wish he had never joined. Music would be more democratic. The community of music lovers Apple would court probably would decide which songs became "Tasmanian Go-rillas" (to borrow a phrase the FMQB music tipsheet publisher Kal Rudman used to use to describe a hit record). Hits would be determined by a different hierarchy -- perhaps like YouTube video clips are. Apple would be less&hellip