What's with the Beatle Ads produced by Apple about??

[BlueJazz]

I understand that itunes carries the Beatles but why is Apple trying make such a Big Deal out of it?

I mean, I was trying to find some Beatle songs like "Yesterday" or "Help" or "Let it be" and for the life of me, tsk tsk, I can't
seem to find these songs anywhere ....Damn... Nobody sells Beatle cd's or videos or anything. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[elocs]

1. If you don't get it then I don't know how it can be explained to you. n/t

[BlueJazz]

6. Oh...I think I can explain it. Apple (as usual) tries to act like their products are "IN" and ...

..anything else is "OUT".
They never have been very subtle about anything that they do.
"We make all the really, neato, cool hip stuff and it only costs you twice as much"

[nolabear]

18. Well it IS advertizing.

[Drale]

2. For a very long time Micheal Jackson owned alot of the Beatles Songs

and he refused to allow the CDs to be sold. They released all the CD's not to long ago and now they are on I-tunes.

[brooklynite]

10. No, that wasn't it...

There were three parties involved. EMI Music was the holdout to the deal.

[Occam Bandage]

3. It's more about Apple branding than it is about music sales.

The Beatles are cool but classic. They're counterculture but noncontroversial. They're popular but not lowbrow. They're creative but accessible. The Beatles are everything Apple wants its brand to project.

[toddaa]

4. It's about milking the last few drops out of an aging cash cow

I've uninstalled iTunes from two laptops and my wife and kids now use my Linux box to install and manage mp3s ripped from CDs or bought from Amazon onto their ipods.

[WCGreen]

5. You have to watch the commercial back wards....

[WiffenPoof]

23. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

Now THAT is funny.

-PLA

[WillyT]

7. Psst...

You're giving away your age.

:hide:

:yoiks:

[BlueJazz]

8. Probably (32) but I've got every Beatle song ever recorded...

...why would I need to download a "Not as good" copy ? Makes zero sense. :)

[WillyT]

13. LOL !!! - My First Album Was "Meet The Beatles" In 1964

Think about it it this way...

I always wondered why Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' was on Billboard's Top 100 for so many years. And don't get me wrong... one of my favorite albums. But...

A friend of mine suggested... you go out and buy the album. You fall in love with it and then...

You buy the super fidelity version of it.

You buy the 8 Track version of it.

You buy the cassette version of it.

You buy the CD version of it... on and on as the technology changes over and over.

Plus... I-Tunes let you buy one song at a time, and since the younger generations are used to this feature, and are not totally familiar with the Beatles discography... I-Tunes makes total sense for them.

And believe me... I-Tunes has figured this all out.

:shrug:

:hi:

[BlueJazz]

17. I guess I've just never "Got" itunes and buying one song at a time when...

...it's possible to download thousands of songs for very little dough and do the same thing (and more) than itunes. ??????

[pokerfan]

30. Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RdqJI4l_X4I/AAAAAAAAALA/QG8biBHLVC4/s400/MIB+CDs.jpg
"This is a fascinating little gadget. These are going to replace
CDs soon. I guess I'll have to buy the White Album again."

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. the beatles record company (apple corps) and apple had YEARS of disputes

it was finally settledin 2007

this is the first time beatles music is offered by itunes and thats why its a big deal

[BlueJazz]

11. Maybe...but why download from Itunes when Bearshare is only 10 bucks a month..

...and you can download thousands of songs....and record them...and keep them.

[AlabamaLibrul]

12. You have to pay ten bucks a month for some peer-to-peer "free pirated shit" software?

What a ripoff.

[BlueJazz]

15. It's not software...(I get software for free...)...it 's songs and they're clean and...

..I can record them and do anything with them.

[Occam Bandage]

19. You pay to pirate. That's like grade-A sucker material, right there.

If you're going to pirate, don't pay someone else for the privilege, and certainly don't pay someone what it would cost to legitimately buy an album a month.

[BlueJazz]

26. It's worth it to me. 10 bucks is nothing when I have a supply of songs anytime I want them.

I could download them for free somewhere else and go to a lot of trouble..but again 10 bucks saves me a lot of time.
If you can't afford the ten spot..then fine...work your ass off to build a library...Not me.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. you asked why it was being advertised as a big deal, i answered

why consumers do what consumers do, wasnt the question.

i can answer why i personally bought a mac rather than a pc and why i bought the ipad.

[BlueJazz]

16. ...oh..I wasn't knocking you. I've got a Mac but the ipad...mmm..don't know..

...seems like it's a little high right now. I suspect in the next year Apple will add a USB and hdmi port to the ipad and then maybe.. :)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. it was a family gift to me for my birthday (my parents, lisa, lisa's parent, siblings(

its pretty sweet.

[Lyric]

20. They're trying to target the seven people who still haven't downloaded the Beatles catalog

for free.

:shrug:

[thelordofhell]

22. Beatles cash grab

Re-mastered catalog

Rock Band

I-Tunes



it's called selling

[WiffenPoof]

24. I'm A Little Confused By The Question...

The Beatles were more than a rock band. What the commercial says is true (at least to me)...The Beatles changed everything.

I was not a Beatles fan. However, in my "advanced" years I've grown to understand what they meant to the world. Like it or not, there was nothing like them before and the likelihood is that there will nothing like them in the future.

-PLA

[BlueJazz]

28. That's fine and I understand. I like them but that's as far as it goes.

It was a good sell and was marketed very expertly.

[cbdo2007]

25. I agree. Doesn't everyone already have the Beatles cds?? You just put it in your computer

and it will rip it to your Mp3 player for you.

I remember when mp3s first came out...the very first thing my friends and me all had was every Beatles song on mp3. Still have the cd and still listen to it often.

[REP]

27. Nope. I just have my original vinyls. CD quality was pretty iffy for a while.

[CraftyGal]

33. Did you know that there is now a record player that you can attach to your computer?

The kids and I got one for TrogL a couple of years ago for his birthday. this way he could record all his albums in mp3's. He loves it!

[REP]

34. Yup! They're way cool!

I want one ... I can't really justify the space for one as I only have one or two vinyls unavailable any other way.

Very cool gift, by the way!

[CraftyGal]

36. Thanks we thought so.

Only $200.00 CAD, which was a good price I have been told.

[gmoney]

29. Lots of kids have never bought a CD, and won't buy them.

So it's new to them, a whole new generation of potential fans. Removes the excuse for them to steal the music from torrent sites.

Plus, a lot of people buy on impulse, especially music. They hear a song in a movie or at a friend's house, and they want that song now. So they go to iTunes and pop the 99 cents or $1.29 or so to get the song.

And yes, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who think the only way they can get a song into their iPod and/or iTunes is to purchase it through the iTunes Store.

Plus, I'm sure Apple is paying a premium royalty rate and probably fronted a lot of money to get the rights, so they need to "shift a lot of units" to recoup this investment and turn a profit, ergo, advertise.

And hey, when you have some of the best music ever recorded, and basically exclusive rights to sell it in a specific format, you brag. It reinforces Apple's image (and the iPod) as the premium quality leader/innovator that all the others are imitating.

[Frank Booth]

31. As long as it helps the bottom line, corporate behemoths will always exploit art.

It's like how Cisco's using Imagine by John Lennon in its ads.

Yes, Apple and Cisco are obviously crass, money-hungry parasites. But that's capitalism for you.

[Rex]

32. It has to do with the long feud over the symbol of the Granny Smith Apple.

If you can believe that shit.

[REP]

35. ...well and a few other things but yeah

MacIntosh apples are red, too!

[jmowreader]

37. Because the pissing contest is finally over

The Beatles named the label that made their records "Apple Records." It was part of the "Apple Corp" which the Beatles also owned. There were a few other bands on Apple Records, but basically it was the conduit for releasing Beatle records, and records made by the members of that band.

In 1977, Wozniak and Jobs released their "Apple II" computer, which could generate sound. It was one of the first, if not THE first, computer that could generate sound. The Beatles members got in a big legal pissing contest and forced the Apple of the time to promise not to enter the music business.

Forward to the 21st Century. Now Apple is huge in the music business, and for many years the surviving Beatles, and later Michael Jackson, refused to allow Beatles music to be sold by Apple.

My guess is, the estate of Michael Jackson needs a shitload of money right now, and selling permission to put Beatles music on iTunes will get it for them.