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Amazon Hits iTunes Again With $0.99 Lady Gaga Album, Qualifies for Cloud Drive Storage Upgrade

kazmac

kazmac

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very smart

I hope this eventually knocks some sense into Apple and that whole $1.29 per popular song bit at iTunes is. It won't but...I can hope right? ;)

That's a great deal for Gaga fans. I respect her (bought the Judas video) but am not enough of a fan to jump. And I agree about mp3s. Way too compressed to even want to make the jump.

As for this cloud stuff, not interested right now. The one thing I'd like to change at iTunes is function the App store has. Being able to download and/or install the app you purchase on all the machines you own. That would be nice to do with the songs/movies/etc.
 
Porco

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Amazon Hits iTunes Again
 
Glideslope

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adrian.oconnor said:
Nice marketing move. This is how to grow a new service and win some loyal fans. Wonder what it's costing them?
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Plenty. Once Apple inks the streaming deal with Universal it's over for the non Apple Eco System.

This type of gimmick is unsustainable for more than 6 more months tops.

Apple has too many revenu streams. It's the Ivy growing up your tree. Can't kill it without killing yourself.

Too little too late. "The Assimimilation Continues"
 
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Pretty sure he's basing it on Apple fanboy ignorance. Just my two cents. Nothing to be scared of. Cloud storage is cloud storage. Believe it or not, some people hate apple and wouldn't use the service whether it was free or not. Sometimes I hate coming here and reading all the ignorant drivel.
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Then why come to an Apple site that is full of us Fanboys? BTW... we're far from ignorant. Obviously, you love having your anti-Apple blinders on.
 
Consultant

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Isn't selling products below cost in an attempt to gain market share an anti-trust situation?
 
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canadan

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So they pretty much have to nearly give the music away for free to draw people to buying on amazon then? The record companies are gonna make a fortune selling an album for 99 cents? Hmmm
 
xxBURT0Nxx

xxBURT0Nxx

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don't even know why people buy music on iTunes anymore... Amazon has been the way to go ever since apple decided that "top" tracks are worth $1.29....
 
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samcraig

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No one should be excited/looking forward to/wishing for Apple to become a media monopoly.

No one.
 
4D4M

4D4M

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Kaibelf said:
She writes all of her own songs. She sings live every time. She's a classically trained pianist and dancer. She endlessly tours, appears, and promotes her songs and brand. She plays instruments on stage. It's pretty safe to say that, regardless of if you buy the albums or listen to it on the radio, she's about 1000x the musician that most "artists" out there are. Who exactly do YOU listen to that you call a "musician?" :cool: That's why she made $90m last year and has fans lining up to get a photo with her (which she spend hours accommodating for people), and why you're here acting like YOU are too good for HER. Just sayin'.
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All very fascinating, but it doesn't change the fact that her music is, at best, watered down third rate late 90s soft pop-trance. Truly dreadful.
 
sbrhwkp3

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Ichneumon said:
I'm not a fan of her music either, but really it's not fundamentally any worse than most other modern popular music.
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It's worse because it's got an act to go along with it.

I don't like any modern popular music. It's all machine processed garbage.

The real musicianship lies outside of the top 100 billboards.
 
VenusianSky

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Geez people, Amazon is only doing the $.99 gaga album just for today. No need to spin this into some major anti-itunes campaign.
 
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xxBURT0Nxx

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samcraig said:
No one should be excited/looking forward to/wishing for Apple to become a media monopoly.

No one.
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agreed, can't believe iTunes is the number one music retailer...

I guess its still too much for the general public to buy music from other places (amazon) and import them to iTunes, so they buy from iTunes for the convenience?
 
RodThePlod

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4D4M said:
All very fascinating, but it doesn't change the fact that her music is, at best, watered down third rate late 90s soft pop-trance. Truly dreadful.
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She's not really my 'cup of tea' but there's no denying the Lady can shift music - and all this promotion means is that she'll shift shed-loads more.

As far as us mere consumers are concerned, this move by Amazon means everyone wins ;)

RTP.
 
ThunderSkunk

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That image just made my day!

Lady Gag vs Biker gang: Biker gang wins! Chop head off, mount on handlebars & fork as decoration. Hooray!


She may technically be a musician by definition, but like most pop "artists", after the obligatory 20-year rolling nostalgia wave, no one will refer to her and her work as "classics by the musician lady gaga", as they would anyone deserving of the title "musician". Same goes for 99.999% of the DJ's in the world.
 
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briand05

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This is a great deal on a great album.

As for the haters: I'd rather listen to this than that bland hipster bs that the internet armchair haters like. :rolleyes:
 
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BLACKFRIDAY

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I am not understanding the strategy behind such a feature in the cloud storage where you can stream tonnes of data, but ultimately, you end up stopping at 500MB/month. :(

What am I gonna do with 20GB storage of music in the cloud when I can only stream 500MB of it?

It's better I transfer 5-6 of music to my phone and then keep it on a regular sync and so on... :|.

If there needs to be a revolution in cloud storage, there's gotta be two things.

1. Unlimited Data
2. Revolutionary Cloud Capabilities.

I don't know who would do that, but I just fail to understand how people are going to benefit from something like this.
 
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