Now I’m generalizing a bit with my title, but consider it for a moment.

Let’s take the music industry for example. People want a shift in the way they purchase and consume their music.

People have shown an extreme shift towards downloads and streaming, and they want it free.

Now, before I go any more in depth, this IS possible, this can sustain an industry, and it’ll probably improve it in the long run. Ads, etc.

Why don’t they give it to the people? Because it’s change, and it means they won’t make as much money, and because they can fight to keep their ways.

Or at least that’s what they think.

The people have spoken, however, and that ain’t gonna fly.

People are pirating music, and moving from CDs to streaming from YouTube, or other free streaming sites, there’s no stopping them. Yet, the music industry still tries to by suing them, and taking their videos off Youtube, or shortening them.

Is this a way to run a business? To not give the customers what they want, and when they find it somewhere else, and thrive on it, cut it off for them. All because you want to keep your precious CDs around, because they USED to make you too much money, the which you took from the artists who made the music you sold.

Let’s see:

1. Rape your employees (artists) – Check
2. Piss off your customers – Check
3. Cut off customers alternative venues – Check
4. Be way too conservative for a product targeted at young people – Check

What’s that? Your business is down? You’re losing money? Your laying off lots of people, because your absolutely retarded conservative business model isn’t sustainable?

YOU DON’T SAY?!

It doesn’t stop at the music industry, the movie industry is suffering from piracy.

Let’s look into that!

Going to the movies costs roughly about $12 a head.

That means a movie date costs about $30, after concessions [which most people sneak in now, because they're ridiculously expensive.]

Minimum wage where I’m from is about $9.50 an hour, which means someone would have to work for 3 hours to take someone to an hour and a half movie.

That’s value if I’ve ever heard it.

They say that its due to people not going to the movies any more, which they blame on piracy.

I blame it on shitty targeted movies, that aren’t worth watching in the first place, taking over the market. This is due to the fact that movie execs are willing to take the risk on an artsy film, or a film that doesn’t target a specific demographic, no matter how good the script is.

The literature industry seems to have saved the movie industry. Some of the biggest recent movies were based on literature, for example the latest Harry Potter was the biggest budget film of the summer [at $250,000,000], yet the only reason someone invested that money is because the books, and subsequent movies, were a remarkable success.

Bottom line: People aren’t going to pay a huge premium to watch the same movie they’ve seen a thousand times.

Popularity on movie recommendation sites tends to favour movies which were groundbreaking in their time. Movies that moved people, and that left you without any words. There’s not too many of these anymore. These are the movies people are downloading.

There’s plenty of businesses who are being way to conservative for the changing of times, and they’re failing, yet the bigwigs at the top can’t figure out why.

I just hope they go out of business to make way for people who actually know what the customer wants.

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I absolutely despise it when something is toted as being a “___ killer”.

Now let me start by saying I have an iPhone, I love it, it does almost everything I need it to, of course there’s room for improvement, but I’m not, by any means, disappointed with it.

Seems every month, neigh, week, some tech write-up is claiming that this new gadget is the iPhone killer. Bow to it, it will be more successful than the iPhone, and will change the world.

First of all, shut up. Second of all, no it won’t.

This week we have the Motorola Droid, running Android, that is slated to kill the iPhone.

First reviews? Its slow, not a chance. That doesn’t stop these guys from writing up about how it will though.

Let’s look into the past, as well.

The Palm Pre, the Blackberry Storm, the list goes on for previous assassins. Did they kill the iPhone? No. Did they come close? No. Did they make a ripple in the water? Barely.

Give me a break people.

If you’re going to make a product, make it to be amazing, without trying to catch up to anything.

Sure you have to be aware of what the competition is doing, but take that, and make it your own.

This is why the iPhone was so successful in the first place, there wasn’t anything like it, it was new, interesting, it broke ground.

If you want success, do the same, don’t copy and cry when it doesn’t work out to be a smashing hit, try harder with your next product.

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