![]() I approached Apple to talk about the legacy of the iPod. Apple swooped and signed them as exclusive manufacturers, slamming the door on Creative Labs which was simultaneously working on their Zen MP3 player. The issue of limited storage was cracked by Toshiba developing a cheap 5GB disc drive that could hold about 1,000 songs. The design and functionality of the iPod was something Jobs obsessed over during its gestation period. She adds that record labels saw it as one thing “to sue that little company Diamond” but something else to “try and take on a behemoth” such as Apple. “Once the iPod came along, they were more open to a middle ground,” says Rosen. After the failed Rio litigation, there had been a change in temperature among labels, slowly accepting it was better to work with rather than against such devices. It was an enormous gamble but Jobs’s timing was, not for the first or last time, impeccable. The next step was to develop a music player that shunted its rivals into the ditch, and from there followed a move into music retail with the iTunes Store. ITunes, launched in January 2001, enabled the ripping and management of CDs on a user’s computer. He was convinced only Apple could successfully streamline digital music. Jobs viewed this as an unmissable opportunity, damning the Rio and its competitors as “brain-dead” due to clunky software and design. In October 1999, however, a US district court judge denied the RIAA’s demand for an injunction against the Rio and more than 200,000 players were sold soon after. The record labels “wanted the player off the market”, says Hilary Rosen, who was CEO of the trade organisation Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) between 19. Steve Jobs with the iPod on 23 October 2001. Record labels felt it should be subject to a blank media levy and pay royalties to copyright owners on every device sold. It was Diamond Multimedia and its Rio range of MP3 players that first caught the public’s imagination and the music business’s ire. The first digital music players emerged in late 1998 and early 1999, notably the Personal Jukebox (developed by Compaq Research), which held the equivalent of a CD’s worth of music and was prone to skipping if bumped. “Whatever the music industry thought, that’s what you shouldn’t do.” So the iPod benefited not just from the design deficiencies of the MP3 players before it, but also from an early mover taking all the legal heat from a record business spooked into fight mode. “ was a bellwether for idiocy,” claims Jim Griffin, an industry consultant who cut his digital teeth at Geffen in the 1990s, putting out the first full-length song legally online in June 1994 ( Head First by Aerosmith). The industry responded by attempting to sue filesharing service Napster and the copycat services that came in its wake: litigation rather than innovation. To keep up to date with all the information on Farmside please like us on Facebook , follow us on Twitter and join us on Discord. The combination of fun and intuitive farm life sim gameplay, with tons of potential for growth and expansion, is a compelling one! We can’t wait to bring the beautiful and relaxing world of Farmside to Apple Arcade next month. Enjoy Farmside’s community – Connect with other Farmside players on social and share how you’ve customised your farm!.Your farm, your way – Build and expand the farm, place everything from fields and buildings to machinery exactly how and where you want, unlock hundreds of decorations, and change the colour of the farm buildings.Build a dream farm – Sow and harvest crops grow orchards filled with fruit raise animals while fulfilling orders from townsfolk, and cooking unique recipes from ingredients across the farm. ![]() Plough your attention towards the debut Farmside trailer! In partnership with Topia Studios, we’re bringing farming life simulator Farmside to Apple Arcade from 17 th February, Farmside combines the relaxing gameplay of sowing and harvesting crops, raising livestock and poultry, and growing fruit in orchards, with high levels of customisability that allows players to choose the avatar’s clothing, as well as change the colour of the farm’s barn, house, and other key buildings. ![]() Perfectly place crops, nurture fruit laden orchards, and impress your online agricultural neighbours in Topia Studios’ relaxing farm life simulator, coming soon to iOS devices.
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