{"id":473,"date":"2007-07-02T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T07:36:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-02T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T07:36:57","slug":"apple-gets-cold-shoulder-from-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/473-apple-gets-cold-shoulder-from-universal.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple gets cold shoulder from Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This is according to reports from Reuters and the New York Times which suggest that the month-to-month agreement leaves the door open for exclusive deals with other services. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Reuters reports that Universal &ldquo;will continue to sell music and videos of artists including 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Black Eyed Peas via iTunes on a month-to-month basis, rather than be locked in to a two-year agreement Apple had proposed, the source said.&rdquo;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Apple has a firm grip on the digital music market, controlling around 70% of the online music market in the US. Its iPod is also the most successful digital music player in history.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This dominant position may however have cost it a long term agreement with Universal, and Reuters report that &ldquo;some music executives have privately expressed frustration that Apple&#39;s dominant position may have hampered growth of the fledgling digital music market by keeping users locked within the Apple system.&rdquo;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Apple launched the much hyped iPhone last week, punted as a true multimedia device which is sure to shake up the high end mobile phone market.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple iTunes music store is faced with a headache after Universal Music Group has apparently declined to sign a long-term deal with the iPod and iPhone manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}