Apple Europe boss to deliver London music keynote
Pascal Cagni, Apple's general manager and vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa will speak at a London digital music conference next week, notes Macworld UK.
Apple dominates the fast-expanding European music download market, according to Jupiter Research analysts, who recently revealed that Europe's legitimate digital music market was worth â¬192 million in 2005, 267 percent more than in 2004.
Jupiter Research analyst Mark Mulligan said that just 5 percent of European Internet users paid for digital music in 2005.
"Apple dominates the market, so a large share of what we're seeing is actually the success of Apple rather than digital music as a whole," he observed, with new mobile and music subscription services ready to enter the market.
The free admission event will also feature JupiterResearch analyst presentations and round table discussions featuring other leading industry experts.
In the next 30 days, Apple will also have a presence at the Photo Imaging Expo in Tokyo, Japan; the Musikmesse music trade show in Frankfurt, Germany; and the IPEX 2006 print, imaging and media expo in Birmingham, UK.
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Apple is definitely getting around more than they used to.
While they dropped the expo here in the Eastern NY/Boston area, they are at many more shows, both professional, and home, than they ever were before.
I suppose being much bigger, and more profitable, allows them to do this.
Another reason why growth is good for a company like Apple.
That's great, but I'm starting to agree with the whiners about the low bitrate songs. Let's see Apple step up and offer higher encoding rates.
Why do I say this? In the beginning, they claimed that "some" of the music in the first million songs was encoded from the original masters, but I *highly* doubt they were able to continue doing that as they added millions of more songs over the past three years.
Apple is working extremely hard to achieve the success they are now getting. I look forward to what the EU keynote presents. Let's just not have to suffer in quality for that success. Don't be cheap, Apple.
Not to mention their touting of the iPod Hi-Fi as so high quality.
Who cares about great speakers if iTMS is 128k?
Not to mention their touting of the iPod Hi-Fi as so high quality.
Who cares about great speakers if iTMS is 128k?
Go to the thread on the BoomBox, or, read some of the reviews. It's clear that you don't know much about the product. Most people have more songs on their iPods that they've ripped from their cd's, than they do from iTunes. You can rip at many bitrates, or use Lossless Encoding.
What is this at the bottom of the article!
"he observed, with new mobile and music subscription services ready to enter the market."
A while back 'apple' applied for a trademark "mobile me"!This is indeed interesting! iPod phone possibly, who knows!