Years ago, the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, proudly proclaimed that people wanted to own their music. In touting the iTunes Music Store, he said it was the best way to get the music you want at affordable prices. For the music industry, the iPod and iTunes were salvation for a time. Stung by loads of […]

From the very first day personal computers and online access became relatively inexpensive and popular, there was the dream of a paperless revolution. In other words, rather than printing all your documents, including manuscripts and even financial records, you’d reduce them to ones and zeros and turn them into computer files. In the early days, you […]

It’s sad, really. Apple’s iTunes store has sold billions of songs, millions of TV shows and movies, yet the entertainment industry still resides in the middle of the 20th century, so they can’t appreciate what’s actually happened. For those of you who weren’t around in those days, we were saddled with black and white TV, […]