• To Taylor, Love Dave

But even then, the developer community complained that the music portion of the event dragged on, or didn’t relate to them in any way. But that’s what they don’t see: Apple views artists and software makers as ‘developers’ equally. Developers use something called “iTunes Connect” to upload their apps to the store. iTunes Connect was originally build for the record labels to upload songs. We’re all part of the same ecosystem, and the smart players on either side will be looking to one another and evaluating what works and what doesn’t.

Insightful. Emphasis my own.