I still will never rent music.
I still will never rent music.
I’ve never understood this argument. Wouldn’t you rather pay $180 per year to have unlimited access to the iTunes Store via streaming and timed downloads? Instead of $1.29 per song?
It’s all going on your iPod, iPhone, iTunes or Apple TV anyway.
Personally, I think it’s one of those things at face value sounds like an awful idea, yet in practice it works very well.
Most new music is not worth “keeping” anyway. It’s not like I’m going to pass the latest Jay-Z album on to my future kids.
Microsoft is really leading with the Zune Pass. $15 per month for unlimited downloads (timed), Web site streaming and you get to keep 5 MP3 songs (up to $6.45 worth) per month. That’s a good deal — if only it would play on my iPhone.
I've been playing around with LaLa since hearing Apple was interested and it really is a brilliant business model. The key difference between LaLa and other streaming services is that you pay 10 cents per song for the right to keep it up on the cloud available for streaming from wherever forever. (They give you 25 of these for free to start - classic drug pusher tactic ;-) This gives you "ownership" and the song doesn't evaporate if you don't pay some monthly fee. (Of course if Apple is the one doing this you can be sure they won't go out of business anytime soon and take your music away) You also get the ability to preview any song or album in it's entirety one time which is really really useful for deciding whether you want to buy it or not. And the 10 cents counts towards the 89 cents download charge if you really want a copy for your hard disk. I can see this sort of model being used for far more than just music distribution.
They also make it possible to scan your hard disk and make copies of all the songs you already have available on the cloud for streaming for free. Pretty darn cool!!! Of course the information about what's in your collection is invaluable for marketing new music specifically to you. But iTunes does that already anyway so no real change there. LaLa had an iPhone app in for approval and agreements with google that let people play a song from a google search so I'm sure Apple decided to assimilate it before it became an even bigger deal.
I still will never rent music.
I still will never rent music.
I agree with "jaw04005". Since I cannot tether my iPhone to my mac at work and listen to it's music, a streAming option like thus would be helpful to me. Very interested in where this goes...I like that they aren't resting on their laurels and are again expanding the service.....
Let's hope for a subscription MOVIE service!
The Newton's only failure was being ahead of it's time.
The time gap between Cube and the Mini negates any sort 'evolution' IMO and the two machines are in completely separate markets. The Cube was supposed to be a higher end 'Ha-ha, I've got money' showcase type machine and cost nearly $2k when it first came out. The Mini, on the other hand, is more like the econo-Mac.
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And still I don't care. 1.29 a song or 9.99 an album is no skin off my nose. If you have access to that much music, you won't have the same appreciation for the songs. I also like to physically own things (or digitally in this case.) Would you rent CDs and give them back? No.
At this point in time it is clear that we don't buy recorded music, but just the physical supports where the music is stored (or the ability to store it in our own devices) along with the right to listen to it. To actually own recorded music means to own the IP of that music (and this is, in some cases, oh-so-expensive). So, what's wrong with just buying the right to listen to recorded music and skip the part of buying physical supports (or the ability to record it in our own devices)?
Great move Apple, looking forward to integrate music streaming in my iPhone (multitasking included).
Ive never understood this argument. Wouldnt you rather pay $180 per year to have unlimited access to the iTunes Store via streaming and timed downloads? Instead of $1.29 per song?
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