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MacBytes
Nov 22, 2005, 11:51 PM
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Photorun
Nov 23, 2005, 12:23 AM
$2.50 a download with a sound quality of 96 kbs that is permanently stuck on your phone and you'd have to rebuy to put on your computer?!:eek:

YOWSA!!!
macjunkie82
Nov 23, 2005, 03:38 PM
$2.50 a download with a sound quality of 96 kbs that is permanently stuck on your phone and you'd have to rebuy to put on your computer?!:eek:

YOWSA!!!

To Sprint's credit, the download of purchased songs on your computer is free, it just has to be redownloaded.

Not only that, but the Sprint store imposes more limitations on the use of the songs than Apple does. You can play downloaded songs on only one phone, and the song files can't be played back on a PC. To play them on a PC, you have to download them again, on the computer, in a different format, though you don't get charged again for this.

But yeah, $2.50 is WAYYYY too much! But there are tons of kiddies out there that already pay that for ringtones, so I'm sure there's a market. Just anybody with a brain or a concept of money (I've seen 10 year olds with cell phones) will see this as just another way the big greedy recording and cell phone industries are trying to get more of our money. :mad:
Photorun
Nov 24, 2005, 10:46 AM
But there are tons of kiddies out there that already pay that for ringtones, so I'm sure there's a market.

Somehow misread the whole "buy the song again" part, my bad.

Indeed MJ82, it's what the market can bear, or rather sell. And though it may give the consumer an impression that this is just the labels/cell phone companies ripping you off, if Sprint is trying to recoup R&D and infrastructures that's fine, but perception becomes reality, and with (for now) other download services not being close the price, $2.50 is too much for the market. Not to mention the sound quality is lower.