One would think that with the success of the iPod, iTunes and their commercials, Apple would be very pro-musician. After all, the reason so many people like their commercials are because of those annoying sugar-pop ballads in the background. Or the reason they make so much money from iTunes is because they are selling music created by musicians.

This is not the case of course. Apple is actually fighting to make sure musicians get a smaller piece of the pie from the money generated by their songs. Musicians are currently getting about 13%, or less than 9 cents per song from those who like to get ripped off on iTunes.

Apple thinks this is way too much and would like it somewhere down around 4% or less than 3 cents per song. After all, Apple does all the hardwork by scanning the picture of the cd and attaching it to the songs on iTunes and making sure you can only burn the song 3 times. That’s a lot harder than actually writing, recording, performing and marketing your own music.

Keep on looking out for the little people Apple!

From: Hollywood Reporter

Research from internet ad network Mindset Media confirms the ad’s personification of Mac users as superior and self-satisfied. Its recent Mac user “mind-set profile” — a psychographic ranking system that scores respondents on 20 different elements of personality — found them to be more assured of their superiority, less modest and more open than the general population.

Source: Advertising Age

Not content with bashing the Zune, the arrogant Steve Jobs set his sights on Amazon’s new gadget: The Kindle. A product aimed at being to books what the iPod is to music.

When asked about the Kindle, Steve Jobs said:   “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don’t read anymore. ”

Sassy.

This New York Times article does a good job of exposing just how ignorant Steve’s statement is. Of interest, is the fact that book publishing is expected to bring in $18 billion this year. That’s about 408 million books that Steve claims no one will read.

Apple has only recently gotten to its current size. Only 6 years ago Mr. Jobs’ company only had a $5 billion profit.

Source: New York Times

I beginning to think that Steve Jobs has been watching too many of his commercials and is becoming just as arrogant as those douche bags portrayed.

In this interview with CNBC, the interviewer mentions to Steve (blow) Jobs how Robbie Bach of Microsoft is beginning to think that the Zune is “now a worthy competitor to Apple’s iPod.”

Rather than having an intelligent discussion with the interviewer on why Robbie may be mistaken, or something of the sort, Steve-O Replies with a snide: “Was he inebriated? Do you even know anyone who owns a Zune?”

The same exact thing could have been said about Apple 10 years ago.

I’m not too keen on my knowledge of the Zune, but doesn’t it have pretty much the same features as the iPod plus: being able to share songs, FM Radio, wireless sync with your computer for the same price?

I suddenly forgot that we live in a free-market economy where competition is encouraged.

Check out the CNBC news article with video here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/22673034

To many Apple fans and investors, the Mac World show left much to be desired.

After the macbook air was leaked, people began dreaming up all sorts of cool other products that Apple would be unveiling at the big event. When this didn’t happen, people became disappointed.

This disappointment, coupled with news that they were expecting a weaker next quarter, has left the stock plunging since the event.

As of today, the stock is down to about $131 down from it’s all time high of $202.96 less than a month ago (about a 36% drop).

Ouch

For a more professional analysis: MarketWatch

CNN has an interesting article showing a discrepency between the 4 million iphones sold reported by apple and the 2 million activated by AT&T.

Even after taking into account phones sold over seas and unlocked iPhones, the difference is about 1.4 million missing in action.

Leave a post if you think or know where they are.

Source: CNN Fortune

The second one spoofs the cocky pilot that likes giving weather updates to the air traffic control tower.

Yeah, they’re a few months old, but funny nonetheless

It aint no Speedy Gonzales. Despite being one of the more expensive of the Apple products, it’s easily rated as the slowest.

Check Engadget for the full list of specs

Update: Quick Reference From Gizmodo (Quicker is better)