Year: 2003

Cooper Temple Clause offers ‘The Apple Bootlegs’

Apple UK has teamed up with acclaimed rock band The Cooper Temple Clause, who have posted a free six-track mini album known as “The Apple Bootlegs” on their Web site. The songs were taken from a show in Glasgow on May 13, 2003. In the coming weeks, the band will post an exclusive QuickTime clip of a live track and kick off an iMovie video editing competition for a chance to win a new iPod.

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Apple updates Hot Deals section

Apple has updated its Hot Deals section with the latest offerings from AudioMIDI and DV Direct. AudioMIDI has great deals on a wide variety of music and audio products for your Mac, including Bias SoundSoap, M-Audio MobilePre USB, Emagic EMI 6|2 USB Interface, PSP Vintage Warmer, Propellerhead Reason 2.0, JBL LSR25P Monitor Speakers, and Echo Indigo.

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iTunes Music Store is ‘near-perfect online retail’

“What makes Apple’s new music distribution system so delicious (if not downright insidious) is that you don’t think of it as a music distribution system,” writes Randall Rothenberg for AdAge. “Apple has managed to fashion a near-perfect retail outlet on the Web. Taking pages, obviously, from Amazon, and less obviously from Starbucks, Crate & Barrel and a few other vanguard retailers, Apple has drafted a new book on experiential marketing.

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