• Con­sider that Apple is now seek­ing help from a group that cast about the digital-music sec­tor for years, swapped out busi­ness mod­els mul­ti­ple times (with­out ever find­ing a prof­itable one), and basi­cally did lit­tle to dis­tin­guish themselves.
• CNET scribe Greg San­doval • Describ­ing his skep­ti­cism on Lala, which Apple acquired last week. Sandoval’s take on the startup is beyond unfair – it’s straight-up unin­formed. He wrote about the ser­vice as if the cur­rent ver­sion of the site – which sites such as Pitch­fork and The Onion AV Club, and heck, we, reg­u­larly use – was noth­ing spe­cial. In our opin­ion, it reads as if he’s never actu­ally used the ser­vice, which was strug­gling finan­cially but had solid busi­ness deals in place. Why is Apple inter­ested in Lala, like Google also was? Sim­ple. Because it has a huge, pas­sion­ate, cult audi­ence – an audi­ence bored by iTunes. (By the way, San­doval totally missed Google’s Onebox setup, which TechCrunch was quite excited about.) Write about it when you know what you’re talk­ing about, Greg. source

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