Jobs's Apple Computer, an easy-to-use hand-held computer and an accessible network database are transforming not music itself, but the way music is distributed. Jobs is familiar enough with digital technology to see not only its capabilities but also to recognize its limitations.Īnd so in the case of the iPod portable music player and iTunes online music store by Mr. But it was also very much a sign of the changing balance of power between the conventional media giants and the entrepreneurs wielding digital technologies that are rapidly changing the way media content is made and distributed.Ĭompared with the ambitious but often unfocused visions of executives in the dot-com boom, like the largely failed strategy behind the merger of AOL and Time Warner, Mr. The collapse last Thursday of the Disney-Pixar negotiations over a new distribution agreement appears to have been a clash of egos and business interests. Jobs is becoming the personification of the digital media mogul.
Eisner and the Walt Disney Company is the clearest indication yet that Mr. Jobs, chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios, to walk away from his partnership with Michael D.
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