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Marco wrote a post in which he shared what I believe to be the average consumer’s reaction to a really dumb distribution idea on part of a content company. First the dumb idea, by way of the LA Times. Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won’t just have to wait 56 [...]

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Fred Wilson recently wrote about his experience as a loyal and paying cable TV basketball viewer, and how a lack of options has driven him to consume the pirated product instead. A customer more than willing to pay is being turned away because the product isn’t made available in a customer friendly and convenient manner? Hmm [...]

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I was a Spotify US beta tester about a year ago and have to admit that I didn’t really “get” it. The ugly design was (and still is) distracting, the search was (and is) broken, and I just fled back to my nice clean iTunes experience, comforted by a gigantic hard drive of music. A [...]

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Back in the 70′s and 80′s a product war was waged between JVC and Sony over whose format would become the market standard. JVC created the VHS format and Sony the Betamax one. Betamax in many ways was the better format in terms of technical features and usability, but through a few smart maneuvers on [...]

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Another follow-up on the Ownership vs. Streaming posts. This time some personal insights from my friend Sofia, a Swedish Spotify user. This definitely makes Spotify sound like something that could really do well in the US as well. One thing to keep in mind is that Sweden is very highly wired and connected to the [...]

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An update on my previous post on Ownership vs. Streaming. I focused on the services Spotify is set to bring to the North American market in the near future. In the comments Brooke posted the following question: Wouldn’t Lala be a similar music rental service? I’m unfamiliar with exactly how the boundaries are set, but [...]

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For the first few years of the owning vs renting debate on music consumption, I’ve been strongly committed to the ownership model. Slowly, I’ve moved away from ownership in other realms of consumption. I do not own any DVDs, I rent/stream from Netflix. I almost always give books I buy away to friends once I’m [...]

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