Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Quotes

You need to look no further than Apple’s iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that’s going to be the phone.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

It’s interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power… I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don’t see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what’s happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.