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Here we go again
After basically stealing the design out from under Monster, Dr Dre cashes in.
They make better businessmen than headphones.
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"Decaf is for cowards."
Jack Kevorkian
Birds of a feather...
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
" or recording artists."
Edits: 05/10/14
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That ship has sailed.........not much left to purchase!
The streaming service is small and not worth the expenditure. Sell APPL
I kept trying to sell but it wouldn't let me. Apparently, the stock symbol for apple is AAPL, not APPL. ;)
It does seem that they acquired beats for the streaming service. The headphones are popular and have a huge markup, which doesn't bother apple, but they never would buy a brand for that reason alone. They are falling behind subscription services like spotify and an easy entry is had by paying up a few billions. They could have created their own service, but this way they swallow a potential competitor in the process.
Is the streaming music service that Beats now owns. If they had half a brain they would spin off the headphone part of the business (to which I'm sure there would be buyers for because of its popularity and market presence)
Happy Listening,
Rich Brkich
Retailer & Audio Asylum Industry Liaison
Just watched a bit of analysis on one of the business outlets and one analyst said Beats makes, "let's be honest, garbage."
So, what does that say about Apple and why its getting into the garbage business? Hmmm.
I sampled a pair several years ago, and had a chance to listen to them again yesterday. The source material wasn't very good but the headphones themselves are comfortable and sound OK. Not great, but a lot better that some I've used in the past.
No doubt they're overpriced and they're clearly EQ'ed with portable players in mind, but they're not garbage.
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As long as people perceive Beats as being good - or at least as something too "big" too ignore - then Apple will most likely profit.
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Indeed.
Jobs never believed the trope that Apple sold trendy high priced junk with bad engineering.
NeXT and Apple sold high priced elegance with good engineering, and if it became trendy then so be it.
Apple already has the music library. If they wanted headphones they could make some on their own or get a high quality OEM like Fostex to make them.
I'm sure they would like to buy Bose, but MIT has a controlling stake. sennheiser is private and family owned.
and a couple others for that.
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