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

This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, William is off, and Jimmy Destri of the band Blondie joins Victor to talk about iTunes, Facebook's responsibility, Apple News, Apple Car, and Steve Jobs stories.

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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4 Comments

christopher126 16 Years · 4366 comments

About 5 years ago

Really enjoyed the interview! :) What a charming man. :)

cgWerks 8 Years · 2947 comments

Enjoying the episode... but,

Victor, I think you should pay better attention to the common sense of you guest (re: self-driving car).
Or, maybe a scientists like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDMFlHhzlOw
(especially about 3:43 min in, where he talks about our false assumptions... which I hear ALL the time in the media!)

vmarks 21 Years · 762 comments

Driving is difficult to automate.

But I do think t's not insurmountable. It's not anytime soon, but we likewise shouldn't think that 'not-soon' equals 'never'. And when it comes, it will come out of the work that Fridman and others like him are doing.

If we just sit and agree, it's probably less fun.

vmarks said:

But I do think t's not insurmountable. It's not anytime soon, but we likewise shouldn't think that 'not-soon' equals 'never'.

That depends on whether it is actually possible to achieve an acceptable level of analysis/reaction in comparison to a human. If not, time is rather irrelevant.

Unless there is some breakthrough in terms of AI (which I'd personally bet against), they are working on a data collection / human foresight kind of problem, where they think eventually they will get all the bases covered. I suppose time could be a factor there, but it depends on how big the problem is and how much of it we can cover in a given time. My concern is that I think too many are betting on the former (ie: an AI breakthrough).

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