We are all in the wrong business!!!

Same with me. If there's an instrument being played, I wanna hear it. Bass heavy audio tends to drown out everything else.

I was reading the history of the Beats start up a week or so ago. That's interesting they're selling out to Apple.

What makes Beats interesting is they focused on a best selling brand (Apple) for a high end market (proven higher end sales). Beats took the opposite approach that we see with the thousands of low cost accessories.

My bet is Beats sells out & repeats the same process on a different product.

I'm in no way trying to compare myself to the Beats brand but I did a similar thing years ago with my own network of sites.

I target a small focused niche that has a single proprietary software provider that dominates this niche. The software has a learning curve so it's kind of daunting for new users (personal & small business owners). The software cost up to $1,500.

What I did was, I purchased the software & started cranking out free downloadable files to get new software users up & running ASAP. The free files I created (couple thousand) made my main site the go to place for that sub-niche. People in IM get the impression that freebie seekers aren't buyers, that's not always true when you target buyers looking for help. The catch is to find buyers of expensive products.

In my case the software is trademarked but the files that the software produces is open industry standard (nobody owns the file type).

Anyways, Apple buying out Beats just makes the Beats story even more interesting. It's cool they created a complimentary product & made it such a huge success in a few years.

It is ironic. When I was a kid, I would look at some wire, etc.... and wonder MAN how expensive. The cost of wire dropped and EVENTUALLY companies came out with premade speaker and network cables and the cost just skyrocketed again.

And you are NOT paying for the packaging, name, or assembly, because the price goes up so substantially with the length. It is ironic because a lot of this stuff is probably automated to an amazing degree and therefore makes the final cost far lower. Likewise, there is more competition which should reduce profit margins.

And look at BOSE! None of that stuff should be so expensive. But a little good design, manufacture, and tuned electronics or resonance, and something you figure should cost less than $100 costs several times that.

The apple ipad came out long after LCD displays, and memory, and cpus, dropped, but was priced as if it came out before. Remember when the LCD used to be like HALF the cost of an expensive computer? The memory was also pretty expensive, and CPUs weren't even all that cheap? SERIOUSLY, today they make some laptops for LESS than the LCD used to cost!

LCDs could have been used LONG ago! They had the technology in wide spread use in the late 70s! SURE, it was black and white, but they didn't even use it on the first mac, that was also black and white. It was just too expensive. Apparently, that was due to yield. A larger display had to be thrown out with a few obviously bad pixels. Smaller displays were even less likely to have bad pixels, since they had fewer.

Steve