The Canadian government has decided to start a new business, and go head-to-head with Apple’s phenomenally successful iTunes online music store.
Others have tried to take on Apple. Canada’s most successful hi-tech company, Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry, is having a tough time battling Apple’s iPhone.
It’s not surprising — Apple has a growing army of loyal customers and a constant stream of new products.
They made a $26 billion profit last year, and are sitting on $98 billion in cash. The only people more fanatic than Apple customers are Apple employees.
This is the market the Conservative government has set its sights on. The government’s Crown corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, announced last week it’s going to jump into the online music business.
Let’s compare the two competitors. The CBC is creaking under the weight of no fewer than 10 different labour unions; its corporate culture is a toxic mix of entitlement and work-to-rule sullenness; it’s run by political appointees, not real business executives. And they’re going to take a run at Apple’s iTunes, which has 88% of the legal online market for music sales. Apple has sold more than 10 billion songs online and now sells TV shows, movies and computer applications online.
The CBC is a failure at what it does now. It blows through $1.1 billion a year, and it has been made irrelevant by the 500-channel universe. It no longer has a rationale, other than inertia. It’s less relevant than ever, but more arrogant than ever.
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