For those who are still reading this thread:
Originally posted by evoluzione
it's going to take hella work for a pc company like dell to get a slice.
Dell would have no business here. This is for software companies to do, not PC companies whose R&D departments consists of designing cases and configuring 3rd party products.
Originally posted by AndrewMT
The fact that they are just now hiring people for the windows port is pathetic.
Wrong. They may have an ad out, but that doesn't mean they're hiring the whole team. Believe that they have been working on it. That's a fact. My personal opinion is that that ad, even if real, was a ruse to draw out some hurried competition to get quashed by the unexpectedly quick port of a polished product.
On novelty contributing to sales:
Yes, but, Apple has pleny of music to add to this service. They will probably triple their catalogue before the rate of expansion goes down -- I mean, there are a
lot of holes. And no indie labels to boot. As those holes fill, the downloads will continue.
Besides, Apple can EASILY continue this rate of sale once they have the PC and international market, even with competiton.
But back on the subject of a clone of this service everyone needs to calm down again and remember that the record companies have to like what they see before they will sign. Period. If they don't like it they won't sign. And neither will the artists. And Apple makes some of the best software out there (to a point), remember?
Besides,
the record companies do not want a price war with their product, period (again). So having a bunch of services out there when you only need one to represent you is foolish as long as Apple is a good partner, which no one in the entertainment industry believes MS will be (and, once again, Dell is not a factor,
they don't make software!).
