The Silver Tongue Show

I don’t want this blog to become just a repository for links to articles written by other people. But when I hardly have the motivation to write something of my own (this something wouldn’t be clever anyway), and when someone else comes up with a gem, I have to give you the link.
Influential Mac developer and astute businessman Wil Shipley is expressing his views about Apple, the iPod, the iPhone and iTunes. His thoughts are very sharp and I couldn’t agree more.

He’s saying the while Apple appeared to be doing something good a few years ago when they started the iTunes Music Store, they’re now turning into a greedy company, they seem to have learned from their music partners. When the iTunes Music Store was launched, nothing of this scale had ever been done, the conditions for the purchased music were alright, and the price was not too bad either. Nowadays, if you want to make a ringtone for your iPhone from one of the tracks you’ve purchased on the iTS, well you can’t, you have to buy it again!
Here’s one of the points I really liked in Wil’s post:

But Apple has to always remember that simply making money CANNOT be its point of existence. The point of any company should be to make customers want to give it money, NOT to get money from customers. It’s a subtle distinction that is the difference between good and evil.

And scroll down to read the comments too, they’re worth a look.