Jon Friedman’s Media Web: IPad, iPhone: Apple is a media company

Jon Friedman’s Media Web: IPad, iPhone: Apple is a media company
Apple Inc. is a media company and a model for the 21st century, writes Jon Friedman.
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Who owns your digital downloads? (Hint: it’s not you)
Steve Jobs once said, “People want to own their music.” Someone better tell the folks who run the iTunes Store and its competitors. When you pay for a digital music track or album from an online service, you get a limited set of rights and you most assuredly don’t own those downloads. Here’s why that matters.
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For Rio slum residents, police a mixed blessing
At his barbershop carved into the steep flank of a Rio hillside slum, Jose do Carmo dos Santos used to cut the hair of the neighborhood’s drug dealers and of the addicts who walked up the narrow alleyways for a fix and stuck around for the $ 5 trims.
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