Why didn’t I blog about OnHollywood yesterday?
Because there was barely enough bandwidth in the building to get an email out, let alone a blog post.
Anyway, client eSnips presented yesterday and was, of course, a bit hit.
More presos today including Mozes.
What does this all mean, this confabulation between Hollywood and Silicon Valley?
I have many profound thoughts but until I can get them all down (maybe on the flight home), Steve Gillmor (sitting right in front me at the moment) puts it all of this context very nicely.
Why don’t they get that the iPod broke the back of the record monopoly, just like the VCR broke the back of the projectionist’s union. Michael Robertson: Jobs has to open up the APIs. Not really. Then the Apple trivialization. It’s about design, it’s the hardware, it’s oh so clueless. It’s about the model, folks. Jobs has combined all those tools with a landgrab barrier to entry to move the market inexorably toward the timeout on music catalogue back rights.
More insights from Stowe Boyd:
But as I walked out for my second coffee, I remarkled to Greg Narain that they really seemed clueful. So, things are probably going faster in Tinseltown than I thought.
