From Ted Cohen, big digital poobah at EMI:
We need to evolve from a record company to a music company.
He was pointing out how the whole biz model for music labels is actually around making records, tapes, or CDs – something physical – rather than around the music. He did mention music as a service changing the way we own music.
He’s the second digital guy from a label (the other was Warner) who seems to really be trying to reinvent the industry in a positive way. Way to go, Ted.
From Anssi Vanjöki, big poobah at Nokia:
We need to make time and place independent computers.
He runs the whole Multimedia unit at Nokia. They don’t see just phone or mobile devices, they see the potential released by mobile (pocketable?) computers. Interesting evolution of the category.
