Acquired Episode 38: SoundJam (iTunes)

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Ben & David revisit the birth of the digital music revolution and Steve Jobs' "digital hub" strategy, with Apple's 2000 acquisition of the Mac music player SoundJam MP, which would go on to become iTunes. We relive the 90's with brushed metal interfaces, music visualizers and of course, software sold in (physical) boxes.

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0:00.0	And iTunes sucks.
0:02.0	iTunes does suck.
0:04.0	Well, yeah.
0:06.0	It's bloated.
0:07.0	Yeah.
0:08.0	Or I won't take a position. I'll say people seem to hate iTunes. Welcome to episode 38 of acquired the podcast about technology acquisitions and
0:27.4	IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal and we are your hosts. Today we are covering Apple's 2000 acquisition
0:36.2	of Sound Jam, which would go on to become iTunes. So speaking of iTunes, we love iTunes. Well actually now Apple Podcast reviews. So this is the part of the show where before we dive into things I ask you our listeners, be it a brand new one or someone who's been listening to
0:53.7	the show for a while.
0:54.9	If you've got some extra time, we would love a review on iTunes.
0:57.8	It is how we grow the show and make it better.
1:00.2	We've also got a Slack.
1:01.3	If you're new to the show, there's over 600 of us that are in the slack channel talking about technology news
1:07.1	M&A I POs all kinds of stuff so if you head over to acquired dot fm and'd like to join us, there's a little widget on the sidebar to join us there.
1:16.5	And then lastly-
1:17.5	That was very clever, Ben.
1:18.5	I see what you did there.
1:19.5	I like that.
1:20.5	Yeah, well, you know, most of this show is kind of unscripted, like we have notes, but we don't actually- like that you're
1:23.0	yeah well you know most of the show is uh kind of unscripted like we have notes
1:24.4	but we don't actually type them out and then like you try and get too clever
1:28.0	when you are typing out the exact words that you're gonna say and
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