Jeff Bennett's Blog

Wall Street Journal confirmed the acquisition of LaLa by Apple a few hours ago.

Reports are out that Apple is near or has agreed to the acquisition streaming music company LaLa.  This is a very interesting development in the game of positioning for the next wave of growth for digital music.
LaLa is a four-year-old start-up based in Palo Alto, California.  Lala, unlike Apple’s iTunes, lets users play the [...]

I have tried all sorts of Internet radios over the last several years.  Never had one grab me or monopolize my interest.
At the suggestion of a “tweet” on Twitter that said:  “With Pandora why does anyone download music to their iPhone…”  I got to thinking that maybe this is for me.
Internet radio is surely not [...]

Amazon has launched the Kindle application on the iPhone (and iTouch) today.  I know this for sure as I already downloaded it first thing this morning.  What a great way to start the day!
All 240,000-plus titles are available on the smaller devices which is nice.  What I think is really great though is that Amazon [...]

Back in November 2008 I posted about Nike+ as a positive example of a brand to utilize social media very effectively to create a community, add value with content and tools, extend it’s brand positively and sell some product.  I wanted to share with you this video on YouTube that promotes Nike+ and also a new post [...]

Opening the iPhone and the iPod touch to third-party developers has resulted in a glut of games for the devices available through the iTunes App Store. Might Apple’s handhelds rival those from Nintendo and Sony in the field of handheld gaming devices? Key differences between the platforms exist, though it’s clear that the iPhone and [...]

When the iPhone was introduced in July 2007 there was quite a build up of interest and buzz. There were lines of Apple fans outside of Apple and AT&T Wireless stores across the land.
I got swept up in the hoopla as well and purchased the original iPhone. I was amazed how [...]

It seems like the music labels and artists are getting upset that iTunes “sells” singles and not “albums.” If you look back five years ago these same groups were upset that fans were using the Internet to steal and pirate their music. This blog to give some historical perspective on this matter and some market research for the music industry that has to get real…it is the consumers who determine what format they want!