Chris Harlan
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[Chris Harlan] “Craig Seeman] “That revenue is before costs and payouts as I understand it. Gross Revenue, not Net.
”No. If you look at the 2011 summery I sent you, you will find the following line:
– iTunes Store generated 1.5 billion in revenue, new record. 16 billion songs, 650 million tv shows downloaded. Pleased with 180 million sales on iBookstore.
Clearly, with these numbers, it is not gross. That number would be around 17.5/18 billion, not including books, which I can’t easily figure. Notice also that Apps are not part of these numbers.
“Okay, fool. You took this too far. Clearly, you were processing facts incorrectly and you owe Craig an apology. Now, man up and do it.
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[Darren Durbin] “‘Head on a pike’ ? – I’ve spent most of the morning being corrected by my 6 year old for poor ‘sentence structure’ Everyone’s a critic.
“My 6 year old is now a 13 year old. In her case, it has moved from correcting to the tragical acceptance–sigh–that dad will never “get it.”
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[Chris Harlan] ”
C) I say claims because there seems to be some serious allegations flying around about her credibility on the matter.”I watched a little of that Beyonce interview, and now feel guilty about abetting the above allegations, because she graciously acknowledged that she has good editors.
PS. I do believe that it was FCP7 on the background monitors.
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Well, Darren. As I think about it in the light of reality, that makes a lot more sense. 16 billion songs is a heck of a lot of songs. You wouldn’t happen to know if those revenue figures are gross or net, would you?
And Craig, if it turns out they are gross, I guess you get to put my head on a pike for an afternoon. C’est la guerre.
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[Bill Davis] “Sorry, I got distracted.
I stumbled across a Katie Couric Special interview on ABC with Beyonce Knowles.
What stopped me was hearing Beyonce say: “I’ve learned to use Final Cut Pro so I can edit my own projects.”
Yeah, nothing’s changing out there.”
Bill, you are such a card!
A) There is nothing new about a performer/celebrity using Final Cut or Avid to work on their projects. Actually, that’s been going on since well before NLEs, back with Convergence systems. Of course, usually it is offline. Many actors do go on to be fine directors and sometimes editors, as well. Nothing new there.
B) Beyonce claims to have been using FCP for at least 9 months, so if you do the math, you’ll know which version of FCP she is talking about. It ain’t X. She also says that she likes someone else to do the physical editing, but she can if she has to.
C) I say claims because there seems to be some serious allegations flying around about her credibility on the matter. You might enjoy this:
https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/54237356.html
I have no idea who is right or wrong here, other than you being right, of course, that “nothing’s changing out there.”
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[Craig Seeman] “https://www.edibleapple.com/2011/04/21/itunes-delivers-record-breaking-14-bi…
While we’re not privy to the cost of running the iTunes Store, and hence unable to extract the profitability of iTunes for Apple, record revenue of $1.4 billion suggests that iTunes may be on the brink of becoming a decent source of revenue for Apple.
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I guess if the blogger had looked a little more closely at the report summery he might have felt a bit more “privy.”
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[Craig Seeman] “That revenue is before costs and payouts as I understand it. Gross Revenue, not Net.
“No. If you look at the 2011 summery I sent you, you will find the following line:
– iTunes Store generated 1.5 billion in revenue, new record. 16 billion songs, 650 million tv shows downloaded. Pleased with 180 million sales on iBookstore.
Clearly, with these numbers, it is not gross. That number would be around 17.5/18 billion, not including books, which I can’t easily figure. Notice also that Apps are not part of these numbers.
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[Walter Soyka] “We would never argue that a master carpenter or cabinet maker would be better for choosing only to master the use of a hammer at the exclusion of all other woodworking tools.
“You know, I’m worried about those master carpenters and cabinet makers because just about anybody in the world can now buy a cheep hammer, and that is going to put them all out of work. But, they are the country-club set and high priests of the craftsman world, so they probably deserve it.
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[Craig Seeman] “iTunes isn’t that profitable. It’s relatively small. iTunes sells iPods and now iPhones and iPads. It’s actually key when you consider some of the top Android phones otherwise beat iOS and specs.
“1.5 billion in revenue for 2011. 6% of Apple’s total revenue in 2011. Only 1% less than iPod sales. Mac sales are only 20% of this year’s revenue. Desktop Macs make up less than 30% of the Mac sales total, so iTunes sales revenue is in the general neighborhood of desktop sales as well.
From my POV, you have a strange notion of profitable.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/18/apple-records-q4-2011-earnings-of-6-6b-on-28-3b-in-revenue-tops-100-billion-in-sales-for-fiscal-2011/
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/31/apple-questioning-the-future-of-its-mac-pro-line/ -
[Craig Seeman] “Apple sells hardware. The R&D in FCPX just to move iMovie users doesn’t match a hardware company’s business model. Apple is fundamentally NOT a software company.”
That may have been true at one point. But iTunes? I know it was started to push the iPod, but compare sales over the last few years and tell me which is a bigger part of Apple, the pods or the tunes? And then, on this model comes the Ap store. I don’t think the above statement has been true for quite a while.