Musician Jimmy Destri about iTunes, Spotify, Facebook, and Steve Jobs, on the AppleInsider Podcast

Jimmy Destri of Blondie, and your host Victor

AppleInsider editor Victor Marks and musician/songwriter/producer Jimmy Destri discuss:

• Jimmy's background and how Blondie was unsuccessful at first
• How anyone with a laptop can make music
• iTunes royalties, and how it's been good for artists
• Spotify needs to work with Apple instead of fighting them
• Apple, privacy, and Facebook's responsibility to their users (and Apple News)
• Who would Apple's competitors be in the future?
• and some Steve Jobs musings, based on things his friend Jimmy Iovine told him.

Victor goes to Moogfest and takes over the WUNC radio studios to interview Jimmy Destri about the music business, and the intersection of digital interfaces with art, and we unexpectedly end up talking about Steve Jobs.

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Show note links:

• Spotify's complaints about Apple
• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg pledges 'privacy-focused' future amid ongoing scandals
• The truth about what's actually good and bad about Apple News+
• Apple self-driving car could use 'confidence' algorithm to speed up sensor processing & decision-making
• Satellite Mode, a band Destri is producing beginning late May 2019.

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