Singer Jon Bon Jovi puts the blame on the dying music industry to Steve Jobs
Digital Trends however noted that the singer should better start getting used to the idea that iTunes is asserting its control over the digital music market, emphasizing that the ‘competitors mushroom out of woodwork’.
If there is someone to blame for the dying music industry, singer Jon Bon Jovi was quick to point his finger at Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs.
Bon Jovi asserted in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine that Jobs is responsible for the current state of the music industry.
Citing the reports from Sunday Times Magazine, Digital Trends said that the singer believes Jobs and iTunes have taken away ‘the inifatuation with music his generation was privy to’ and that which is not apparent to the generation today.
“Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it,” Bon Jovi said poetically, quoted by Digital Trends as telling the Sunday Times Magazine.
Digital Trends however noted that the singer should better start getting used to the idea that iTunes is asserting its control over the digital music market, emphasizing that the ‘competitors mushroom out of woodwork’.
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