Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The Money Shot: The (Incredibly Detailed) Life & Times of Rivers Cuomo, Why Bloggers Suck, & Apple COULDN'T Be Overhyping iPhone Sales, Could They?

A bunch of new headlines...

Amateur Hour (Time Out Chicago)
MS: “[Bloggers] are pushing what they like, and I think they feel like they’re doing the band a favor,” he says. “I think a lot of clubs might have gotten hurt [by this]. More than once over the past year, there have been bands that have been riding ‘basement critic’ buzz that just didn’t translate into anything.”


iPhones piling up at AT&T stores (Crave @ CNET)
MS: "We believe the data points to a significant amount of iPhone channel inventory...This is negative in two ways: (1) it indicates end-user demand for iPhone is lower than many investors may think based on Apple's sales figure; and (2) it points to slower iPhone sales in the current quarter, since much of this inventory is likely to be drawn down," Sacconaghi wrote in his report.

Let's walk through the theory. Apple said on Tuesday that it sold 3.7 million iPhones in 2007. But AT&T said Thursday that it ended 2007 with around 2 million iPhone customers.


Rivers Cuomo's Memoirs To Span Eight Volumes (Gigwise)
MS: He said: “I’ve quite a lot of material collected now, I’m still working on most every day and I really enjoy it.

“Right now I have eight volumes sketched out.”


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